Can married couples live separately and still be happy?
53%
53% of Americans believe a married couple can live separately and still be happy.
n = 3,000 US adults · Fielded March 2023 · Cherry Data Signals
Asked of all respondents, not only married ones.
What it means
A narrow majority. Living together is no longer treated as a precondition of a happy marriage by most people asked.
Methodology
- Sample
- 3,000
- Population
- US adults
- Country
- United States
- Fielded
- March 2023
- Research by
- Cherry Data Signals
- Study
- How happily married Americans say they are
Cite this statistic
Cherry Data Signals (March 2023). "Can married couples live separately and still be happy?" Survey of 3,000 US adults, United States. https://cherrysignals.com/statistics/can-married-couples-live-apart-and-be-happy
Free to reproduce with attribution to Cherry Data Signals and a link to this page.
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