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They have lost that feeling of love.
Women often fall out of love before their husbands, and this may be because they are busy with raising children and doing housework.
new research, Published in the Journal of Psychological Sciencefound that women report a more dramatic decline in feelings of love over time compared to men.
One reason for this, the study found, was that women fall in love more than men at the beginning of a relationship, making the fairer sex fall in love even more.
A big topic for women? They feel that there is a lack of cooperation from their male partners, and they are stuck managing the household and raising children.
To conduct the study, Dr. Saurabh Bhargava, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, surveyed approximately 3,900 opposite-sex individuals with various relationship timelines, from recently engaged to decades of marriage. We tracked the emotions of adult lovers.
Participants were asked to record who they were with and how they felt every 30 minutes for 10 days, followed by a longer questionnaire about types and objects of love.
The study found that women are much more likely than men to report moments of love early in a relationship, but they don’t last long.
Women who had been in a long-term relationship were nearly 60% less likely to feel affection while spending time with their partner than women who were in a new relationship. Meanwhile, men’s romantic feelings decreased by only 0.4 percent over time.
Women who fell head over heels reported that their feelings of burning passion disappeared even faster.
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Over time, women’s feeling of “excited love” when they were with their partner decreased by nearly 80%. Again, the decline in men was much smaller (30%).
How they feel can be related to what they’re doing.
The study found that as a relationship settles down, women spend more time doing housework and cooking, while men spend more time relaxing and napping.
Bhargava also said that having children can weaken relationships between couples, as love is redistributed to them and women take on most of the childcare duties.
Our research shows that we’re really glad we worked long hours at the office. Couples reported that no matter how long they’ve been together, their love for each other increases greatly when they reunite after being apart for at least eight hours.
At some point, everything seemed to even out among the study participants. After about seven years of marriage, women and men were almost equally likely to report being in love and enjoying each other’s company.
“I think there’s an optimistic interpretation of the data. Even though romantic passion and romantic love are decreasing, they persist,” Bhargava says. told The Times (London).
In another recent development, scientists recently claimed to have discovered why people can’t stop thinking about their partner when they fall in love.
It’s long been understood that romantic love stimulates the release of so-called “love hormones,” which are responsible for the high you feel when you fall in love, but this new study shows that when you’re in love, parts of your brain are stimulated. It turns out that the department can be confusing. Your romantic feelings become the center of your universe.
But experts admit that after centuries of thinking about love, humans are still confused.
“In fact, we know very little about the evolution of romantic love,” said lead researcher Adam Bode.
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