7 Science-Based Tips to Making it to your 50th Wedding Anniversary

You're reading 7 Science-Based Tips to Making it to your 50th Wedding Anniversary, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein Growing old with the person you love is a dream for most people. It’s a relationship goal you may be hoping to achieve, but let’s state the obvious: it takes a hell of a lot of time and commitment. I’m sure at this point you have heard a lot of (unsolicited) relationship advice from your friends and family. Perhaps you don’t even know what is trustworthy and what is not anymore! One of the most authoritative sources we have as humans is science. Science can give us definitive answers where nothing else does. It’s a source we can use to find answers to some of life’s greatest questions. Including those regarding our long-term romantic relationships. To help you make it to the big 5-0 anniversary, here are seven science-based tips you can use in your marriage (or committed relationship). Idealize your partner A research study published in Psychological Science found that couples who had idealized images of their partners were happier in their marriage than those who had more realistic expectations. This seems like the opposite of everything you have been told ab...
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