Love Calls For Some Thing Else Too

Marriage And Beyond

oi-Staff

By Staff

Monday, August 10, 2009, 17:05

Love is important, but not important enough that it will keep a couple stick to each other for a long time, giving the love life all that it needs. According to an Australian survey, it's been found that love has no major role to play in keeping couples together. In fact, the chances of a couple staying together are affected by age, previous relationships' and smoking.

To reach the conclusion, boffins spent six years monitoring 2,500 couples who were married or living together, reports The Daily Express. The study found that money played a major factor in deciding whether a couple stand the test of time.

The study, entitled "What''s Love Got to Do With It", showed that a quarter of partnerships and marriages will end within six years and half will be over within 25 years. It also found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced, as are husbands who get married before they turn 25.

Couples were twice as likely to split if the wife had a much stronger preference for children or for more of them. Smoking and drinking rates also contributed to relationship breakdown, the study found.

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