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| Tip of the Month
- October 2008 |
SEXUAL AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE
Factual Benefits of Your Marriage Investment: Sexual & Financial Well-being.
In our culture, a lot of people are skeptical about whether "working on our marriage" is a rational choice. Is it really worth it to invest time and effort in a marriage? What’s the long term payoff? Here are some of the facts about the sexual and financial benefits of your marriage investment.
Shocking Truth about Marital Sex (from National Sex Survey, 1992, 3500 representative adults, & Stanley & Markman's 1997 survey of 1000 adults):
- Married people have more sex than singles do -- they have it more often (TWICE as often for both men and women).
- Single men were 20 times more likely to be celibate in the past year than
married men; single women 30 times more likely to be celibate. - Cohabiting couples report sexual activity as frequently as marrieds, but both cohabiting men and women report sex is less satisfying.
- Marriage improves sexual satisfaction -- marriage provides proximity, long-term contract, exclusivity (no jealousy), and emotional bonding.
Financial Well-Being - The big payoff for investing in marriage from The Case For Marriage (2000), Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher.
- For men, marriage itself makes men more successful, and increases their earnings as much as education. Married men earn 30% more than single men.
- Married couples benefit most from the power of specialization… spouses can maximize the activities they are best at, and invest in maximizing the other's talents and interests.
- The median married couple has a net worth ($65,000 each) which is twice as much as a typical never-married OR divorced person ($33-35,000).
- At retirement, the typical married couple has significantly higher net worth ($205K each) than never-married ($167K), divorced ($154K), widowed ($151K) or separated $96K).
- Married couples save significantly more than other households, can pool their risks, are more likely to acquire assets from in-laws, and avoid the costs of divorce.
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