Six Valentine's Resolutions for Struggling Relationships

When we marry, we hope to remain happily married until death, yet that is not the experience that most of us have.  Yes, most of us who get married will stay married, but committed relationships generally include plenty of significant bumps and bruises.  Here are some statistics to ponder:

Information from the National Science Foundation suggests that in any given year about 12% of men and 7% of women say they have had sex outside of their marriage.

As many as one in three couples struggles because one partner has a low sex drive

Marriage research suggests that the first year of marriage includes a significant decrease in marital satisfaction and that in the years thereafter happiness continues to decline, though at a less steep rate

More than two dozen studies since the early 1980s have demonstrated that marital happiness and relationship quality fall precipitously once couples have children

New parents have eight times the number of arguments that non-parents have

The marital dysfunction rate for couples in which one partner has ADHD is almost 60%

Unemployment, one of the most stressful factors in a relationship, remains above 9%.

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