You know how they say not to worry about wedding doubts because everyone has them? That may not be the best advice. A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles concludes that such “pre-wedding uncertainty,” more for women than men, predicts unhappy marriages and even divorce, reports LA Weekly.
UCLA’s Justin Lavner, lead author of the study, says,
“Newlywed wives who had doubts about getting married before their wedding were two and a half times more likely to divorce four years later than wives without these doubts. Among couples still married after four years, husbands and wives with doubts were significantly less satisfied with their marriage than those without doubts.”
Lavner’s team looked at 232 married couples in Los Angeles after four years of marriage. Nineteen percent of women with pre-wedding doubts ended up divorced compared with eight percent of those without such doubts, according to the Los Angeles team. For men, 14% of the doubters ended up divorced, and nine percent for the non-doubters.
Divorce Tip: If someone you know has wedding doubts, especially if this person is female (according to the Los Angeles study)… don’t dismiss his/her concerns lightly.