Love may have an age after all, if we are to believe a very serious American study.
The saying is known to all. Love has no age. It is no longer rare to see couples with more than ten years of difference. Still, that wouldn’t help the odds of a relationship lasting, according to a study by Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Michigan.. For several years, scientists have set out to observe and analyze the behavior of no less than 3,000 individuals in couples in order to determine what would be the ideal age difference for a marriage that lasts.
The conclusion of this study is formal: the greater the age difference between two individuals, the more their couple is at risk of separating. It would therefore be necessary to start from the principle that we are talking about a significant age difference when it exceeds ten years. The figures are also quite telling: according to the results of the survey, couples with a ten-year age difference would have a 39% chance of divorcing, compared to 95% for couples whose difference is at twenty. When this gap is reduced to five years, the risk that your relationship will not last for life is reduced to 18%.
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A very small ideal age difference
The people would now like to know what is the ideal age difference to sustain a couple or a marriage. This would be twelve months according to the study. Clearly, it is better to get together with a person of the same age or almost to have a chance of continuing your relationship. There would also be a logic behind this as the experts point out. Since the concerns and expectations of each individual very often vary according to age, it seems normal or at least natural for two people of the same age or of close ages to share similar desires and objectives.