The research
The top predictor of life satisfaction
545%
higher odds that men and women say they are ‘very happy’ with their lives when they are very happily married.
“Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America. Specifically, the odds that men and women say they are ‘very happy’ with their lives are a staggering 545 percent higher for those who are very happily married, compared with peers who are not married or who are less than very happy in their marriages.”
Brad Wilcox