A new study strongly suggests same-sex couples are conspicuously happier than their straight brothers and sisters.
Researchers questioned over 25,000 people in the United Kingdom and more than 9,000 in Australia.
The data they collected led them to conclude gay and lesbian couples are quite content and just really feeling themselves.
On the other hand, bisexual people were on average less happy in their relationships than heterosexual or homosexual couples.
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The study was conducted by Janeen Baxter and Francisco Perales at the University of Queensland.
“Relationship quality in same-sex couples was as high as in heterosexual couples in the United Kingdom,” they conclude, “and higher in Australia.”
“The lowest relationship quality in both countries was reported by bisexual individuals.”
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Baxter and Perales infer that same-sex couples may have stronger bonds because they’re less intent on sticking to tried-and-true gender roles:
“Individuals in same-sex couples (particularly lesbian women) generally are more equitable in the ways in which they allocate domestic work, including childcare.”
Heterosexual couples tend to constantly reaffirm their gender roles while coupled up, which can lead to a potentially destructive power dynamic.
“Unequal household burdens are associated with poor relationship outcomes, including marital conflict and divorce,” they write.
“If gender display is not as salient in same-sex couples and these relationships are more egalitarian than heterosexual couples, higher levels of relationship quality might be expected.”
The researchers also suggest gay couples probably feel aligned with an entire community of like-minded couples, which could also increase their happiness:
“Individuals in same-sex relationships may be more likely than those in different-sex relationships to have high relationship investment….
Our results provide robust evidence to combat deep-rooted and erroneous social perceptions of same-sex relationships being conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional.
Our findings support policies that seek to legalize same-sex marriage and parenting rights.”
They also believe these results “highlight the need to give further attention to bisexual individuals as a distinct group because their outcomes are comparatively poor.”
KaiserVonScheiss
Bullshit. This is merely an assertion with no evidence to back it up. How do they know that gender roles are the reason why? There could be a multitude of reasons for this.
And where, pray tell, is the link to this study? In what type of journal was it published? Was it peer-reviewed?
Heterosexuals are able to naturally have children. The research indicates that childless couples are more happy. Isn’t it highly possible that homosexual couples have fewer children and are more happy?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/complete-without-kids/201103/fact-or-fiction-childfree-couples-are-happier-couples-kids
DCguy
Hey Queerty, Once again Mo Bros screenames come on here to immediately attack ANY suggestion that lgbts are normal, or happy, or to be accepted.
How many times do they have to prove that they are only here as anti-lgbt trolls?
KaiserVonScheiss
@DCguy
You have no real argument, so all you can do is lie and misrepresent what I said. Pathetic.
bugg
This is not surprising, coming from queerty, to not even release any sources from any of their bs “studies”. Because if they did, we would be able to see them, read between the lines and see that the study is biased, and lacking some key informations.
They’re making useless articles. As usual.
jwgarcia82
All it took was a few seconds of Googling. Here you go, make of it what you will:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fare.12293/pdf
broadshoulder
Knew it!! No battle of the sexes …
RexMovesSlow
What a load of nonsense.
Notright
This is pure click bait. If lesbo couples are so damn happy then why is the Lesbian divorce rate double that of straight couples?
Kangol
Homophobia and heterosexism, lack of social and psychological support and reinforcement the way cis-heterosexual couples receive non-stop 24/7/365, etc.
am_psi
Lesbian and bisexual women also have the highest amounts of domestic violence. But gay men have the lowest, so maybe it’s just women that’re the problem.
Knight
Am LOL…as much as I would like to think that is the case, statistically men are the abusers in the vast majority of cases in male-female relationships.
Danny595
1. am_psi – If you dig deeper into the stats, you find that, while it is true that lesbians and bisexual women experience higher levels of domestic violence, virtually all of the DV experienced by bisexual women and about 1/3 of the DV experienced by lesbians originates with male perps, not from the female partners.
2. Notright – It is not true that the lesbian divorce rate is double in all jurisdictions. In some jurisdictions, it is lower than hetero divorce rates. However, it is true that lesbian divorce rates generally are higher than gay male divorce rates, so if lesbians are the gender egalitarians, that higher divorce rate would seem to contradict the assertions by the researchers above.
Knight
Wow…”researchers”…sounds both scientific and academic, so it MUST be taken seriously. I honestly don’t think there could be a bigger piece of stupidity and fluff here if they tried. And just what KIND of “bisexual” relationships are they referring to? Same-sex relationships where both partners are also attracted to the OPPOSITE sex? Or male-female relationships, where both partners admit openly that they are also attracted to members of the same sex? Nah…calling BS here. And despite the massive well intentioned cover-up to show that gay marriage is much stronger than even straight marriage, the vast majority of the original marriage licenses issued in 2014 to gay (note: not lesbian) same sex couples have already ended in divorce.
IJelly
Not sure why Queerty didn’t link to the actual study, but here it is:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fare.12293/full
bugg
Thanks 😉
And queerty didn’t linked it, because they want to push their own narrative. And from the quick look on the study, we can already see that : “Relationship quality in same-sex couples was as high as in heterosexual couples”. “As high as”. Not “better than” or “higher than”. Soooo, this article is h0rsesh1te.
DCguy
There are FIVE of Mo Bros screenames in here to attack this study.
Hey Mo Bro, does the suggestion that gay and lesbian couples are happy ENRAGE you so much? Oh, that’s right, because you are a bigot who hates lgbts and are only on this site to attack us and defend GOP bigots.