REAL LIFE NEWS: TRUE LOVE HAS A SHORT SHELF LIFE
by Hazed
And they lived happily ever after. That’s how the fairy tales all end, and if you read romance novels or watch rom-com films, it’s the expected outcome too. But in real life, wedded bliss has a short shelf live, according to new research.
1,761 married people were tracked by American and European researchers. They all got married and stayed married over the course of 15 years. And guess what: the newly wedded bliss only lasts for, on average, two years before it wears off. True love runs out.
It’s not all doom and gloom, though. If married couples can just hang on through the boring bits after the shine wears off, eventually they will experience new happiness: after 18 to 20 years, when the children leave the nest.
The sad truth is that although falling in love leads to intense happiness, eventually we get used to the positive experience, and start to take it for granted. It’s just human nature. There’s lots of info about why this is, at the source link below.
It wouldn’t make such a good ending to the fairy tales, though: “And they lived happily for two years, then just put up with each other until the kids left home.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/new-love-a-short-shelf-life.html?_r=0