Study: Couples That Drink Together, Stay Together James Vincent - The Independent
go to original December 7, 2013

Those who drink together stay together; study proves marriages last if both booze. (University of Buffalo/Smarty Po)

Researchers from the University of Buffalo have studied 634 couples through their first nine years of marriage, finding that the divorce rate was significantly higher when only one person in each couple was a heavy drinker.

Surprisingly, if both partners drank equally heavy than their chances of splitting up were no higher than couples that didn’t drink at all.

“Our results indicate that it is the difference between the couple’s drinking habits, rather than the drinking itself, that leads to marital dissatisfaction, separation and divorce,” said Kenneth Leonard, PhD, RIA director and lead author of the study.

The researchers found that during the nine year study, couples where only one member drank heavily got divorced 50 per cent of the time. By comparison, the rate of separation for all other couples (when both partners drank, or did not drink, equal amounts) was 30 per cent.

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