USA Today shows us how couples with plenty of relationship doubts get married anyway, especially those who have been living together. The articles differentiates between having cold feet and feeling more serious reservations. One of the difficulties for researchers is our ability to time-travel and forecast the divorce before the wedding.
Sharon Jayson writes (excerpt):
“Part of the problem is that after the marriage or relationship is in distress, people recast the history of their relationship,” says marriage researcher John Gottman, co-founder of the Gottman Institute in Seattle and an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington.
Stanley agrees. “He has people trying to explain to themselves why it didn’t work out.”
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