And they said it couldn’t last.
A new study conducted by the Journal of Marriage and Family concludes that same-sex male couples have the lowest stress level compared to opposite-sex couples and same-sex female couples.
Titled “Marital Strain and Psychological Distress in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples,” the study included 756 midlife U.S. men and women in 378 gay, lesbian, and heterosexual marriages. Each participant kept a diary detailing daily points of stress in life and their marriages. Gay male couples had the lowest stress level, while women in heterosexual marriages had the highest. Men in opposite-sex couples and women in same-sex couples fell somewhere in the middle. The study also found that same-sex parents spend more time with their children than their straight counterparts, suggesting same-sex parents are actually more attentive.
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Study authors Michael A. Garcia and Debra Umberson suggest the disparity in satisfaction could have something to do with traditional gender roles. In a same-sex couple, duties that normally would be expected to be carried out by one gender or another get co-opted. In essence, same-sex couples make up their own gender roles as they go, and are more likely to discuss and divide duties according to personal preference, rather than gender models.
Release of the study has already prompted an opinion column in The New York Times, in which author Stephanie Coontz advocates for straight marriages becoming “gayer.”
Frankly, we can’t argue with that.
rbernard
I am in the 42nd year of a committed relationship that began in college in 1978.
I have richly satisfying and affectionate relationship with my husband with very little stress between us.
After all these years, we have grown to truly know and love each other.
In our relationship, it maps to the conclusions in this article.
Harley
As a 56 year old gay man who has had 3 serious gay relationships in my life that have all broken up because of infidelity, I am now happily celebrate for 10 years now and my stress level is practically null now. I now have a happy threesome relationship with 2 pit bulls who shower me with love and affection on a daily basis. If only I could get them 2 clean house while I’m at work.
TomG
Of course we. Generally we have respect for each other as individuals. My partner & I are going on 32 years and that works for us.
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The article and posts above show that Gays can be in in a happy, healthy, fufilling marriage that has zero negative affect nor effect on anyone else.
Yet the right wing nutbag smcubags continue their pernocious vendetta against it.
Paton41
All I can speak for is my marriage and we are much much happier than our straight married friends!
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Cam
If the stress and arguments of my straight married friends are an indication, the study is onto something.