Title: Marriage | Psychology Today
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How to Make Marriage Work
How does marriage change people?
What are the strongest signs that a marriage will succeed?
What can couples do to keep a marriage happy?
What mistakes should new couples watch out for?
What’s the best way to handle problems with your partner?
Can you make a marriage divorce-proof?
Can partners change each other?
Sex in Marriage
What is the biggest challenge to satisfying sex in marriage?
What if one person wants to have sex more often?
How do long-term couples maintain a satisfying sex life?
How We Find Partners
What do partners need to know about each other before getting married?
Can marriage succeed with a partner who’s much older or younger?
Are marriages more successful when partners are similar or different?
Do people who live together first have happier marriages?
Monogamy vs. Polygamy
How did people become monogamous?
How common is polygamy today?
How do open marriages succeed?

Content: Marriage | Psychology Today
Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death, but in practice is often cut short by separation or divorce. Contents
How to Make Marriage Work
Sex in Marriage
How We Find Partners
Monogamy vs. Polygamy
How to Make Marriage Work
Marriage brings great joy to many but it also brings challenges, often profound ones. How a couple manages them often determines whether their relationship collapses or holds firm. Preserving long-term connection may require one or both partners to jettison misguided beliefs or dysfunctional habits that they themselves hold, while bearing in mind that trying to change a spouse tends to fail unless the individual also wants to change. How does marriage change people? Created with Sketch. < g id="-small" stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd">
Marriage does more than change people’s living situation and daily routines; becoming a spouse appears to change one’s personality as well, especially in the early years of marriage. Men, for example, tend to become more conscientious and introverted than they were when single, and women more emotionally stable.