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Publicado: Friday 17 de April de 2026, 16:03 Hello, Guest! Article about single man vs married man: | Psychology Today Are women really better off being single while men are better off married? Is It True That Single Women and Married Men Do Best? Sex differences in marriage and single life: Still debating after 50 years. Click here for Single man vs married man Making Marriage Work Take our Relationship Satisfaction Test Find a marriage therapist near me. In 1972, sociologist Jessie Bernard made a big splash by declaring that there are “his and hers” marriages —and that his is typically better. Now, about 45 years later, it is still a part of our conventional wisdom that women fare better single while men are better off married. But there is also a competing narrative, which seems to be even more widely embraced: The one that claims that getting married is better for everyone because it makes people happier, healthier, and more connected, and even keeps them alive longer. I have spent much of the past two decades showing the ways in which those claims are grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong (here and here and here). But there are powerful pro-marriage organizations (pro-conventional marriage, that is) invested in perpetuating the myth of the transformative effects of wedlock for both women and men, and they have been highly successful. Since Bernard published her book, there have been thousands, if not tens of thousands, of studies on marriage. To know definitively what the research really says about sex differences, we would need to see a meta-analysis—a review that statistically combines the results of every relevant study that has ever been conducted. There is no such up-to-date review, and even if there was, it would have problems, because many of the studies are deeply flawed. What I offer here is just a sample of what some of the research shows. Remember that the results of studies are always averages and do not capture the experiences of everyone. My conclusions should be considered suggestive rather than definitive. Women and Marriage: They Are Just Not That Into It. Some important studies and reviews of studies find no reliable sex differences, and when there are, it is women who seem most disillusioned by marriage. An example of research that found no sex differences is the longest-running study of longevity, which has been going on since 1912 (discussed here). Results show that the people who lived the longest were those who stayed single and those who stayed married. Those who divorced, including those who divorced and remarried, had shorter lives. What mattered was consistency , not marital status, and there were no sex differences. Another kind of research in which men and women fare about the same are studies that follow the same people over time as they go from being single to getting married. A review of 18 such studies found that people generally become no happier after they get married. At best, they become a bit more satisfied with their lives around the time of the wedding, then they go back to feeling about as satisfied (or dissatisfied) as they were when they were single. That pattern is also the same for men and women. That review of 18 studies also found that both married men and married women become more and more dissatisfied with their relationship over time. A study of covenant marriages found that women become dissatisfied with their marriages sooner than men do. One of the most reliable sex differences in reactions to marriage is in who files for divorce. This difference has been documented at least as far back as 1867, and it is still true now, in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Who is more likely to walk away from a marriage? Women . They initiated about 62 percent of divorces in the U.S. in 1867, and that number is now closer to 70 percent. Some marriages end with the death of a spouse, and that can be deeply distressing for both men and women. There are indications, though, that women adapt faster to bereavement than men do. Once a marriage ends, for whatever reason, women are much less likely than men to try it again. Rates of remarriage are almost twice as high for men as for women. Some of that can be explained by more advantageous sex ratios for men who want to remarry than women, but that is unlikely to be the entire explanation for such a big difference. Making Marriage Work Take our Relationship Satisfaction Test Find a marriage therapist near me. Living Single and Living Alone: Women Do It Better. Single man vs married man Married man vs single man life expectancy Married man vs single man

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