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How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1 — Wait But Why

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Given that the choice of life partner is by far the most important thing in life to get right, how is it possible that so many smart people get it so wrong?

To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality , “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly miserable, and much less happy than unmarried people, and people in self-assessed good marriages are even more happy than the literature reports”. 2 In other words, here’s what&#

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