Do married couples say marriage takes work?
2 in 3
2 in 3 married couples say they have to actively work on their marriage.
n = 3,000 US adults · Fielded March 2023 · Cherry Data Signals
Reported as approximately two-thirds of married respondents.
What it means
Around two-thirds. Set against the 74% who call themselves happily married, the two findings overlap heavily: for most people, happy and effortful are not opposites.
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). "Do married couples say marriage takes work?" Survey of 3,000 US adults, United States. https://cherrysignals.com/statistics/do-married-couples-say-marriage-takes-work
Free to reproduce with attribution to Cherry Data Signals and a link to this page.
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