Why married women fall out of love faster than the men
According to a recent Carnegie Mellon University study, women fall out of love before their husbands do.
According to a recent study, women report a more marked decline in love sentiments over time than males, according to research published in the Journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
According to the research, women are more in love when relationships start than men. They rapidly fall out of love because they feel their male partners aren’t doing enough to support them while they run the household and raise the family.
Professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Dr. Saurabh Bhargava, followed the feelings of around 3,900 heterosexual adults with varying relationship timelines—from just engaged to decades married—for the study.
For 10 days, participants were asked to note who they were with and how they felt every thirty minutes. After that, they were invited to complete a longer questionnaire about the nature and purpose of their love.
According to the study, women are much more likely than men to report having brief, fleeting feelings of love at the beginning of a relationship.
Compared to women in more recent relationships, individuals in lengthier relationships felt love over 60% fewer times when spending time with their partner. In contrast, men’s sentiments of love only declined by 0.4 percent over time.
Women who fell in love report that their feelings of intensity waned even more quickly.
Women’s experience of “excited love” while with their partners plummeted roughly 80 percent over time. For men, the decline was significantly smaller—just 30%.
What they’re doing probably has an impact on how they’re feeling.
According to the study, men spend more time lounging and napping when they get settled in their relationships, while women spend more time cooking and cleaning.
Bhargava added that as women typically take on most childcare responsibilities and feelings of love may be redirected toward their children, having children may also dampen a couple’s spark.
Additionally, the study discovered that distance makes a couple feel closer.
When couples were reunited after being separated for at least eight hours, regardless of how long they had been together, they reported a significant increase in love for one another.
After roughly seven years of marriage, women and men were equally likely to report being in love and indicate that they were enjoying each other’s company. Everything leveled out for the study participants at that time.
“I think there is an optimistic interpretation of the data — even though romantic passion and romantic love decline, they do persist,” Bhargava told The Times (London).
