Daily Mail
Confirmed: The couple that drinks together, stays together
Just 5.8 per cent of couples who were lighter drinkers ended up splitting up from their long-term partners, according to the study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
The highest divorce rate – 26.8 per cent – was in couples where the husband was a light-drinker while the wife went on binges.
However, it seems women are more forgiving, as when the roles were reversed the divorce rate halved to 13.1 per cent.
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I’ll never divorce Miss Cupp when she gets drunk and beats me.
Seth Halpern on February 9, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Misleading HA headline. The actual Daily Mail headline says “Divorce less likely if husband and wife consume the same amount.”
There are two main points from the research:
1) “The more people drink, the higher is the risk of divorce.”
2) “In addition, the risk of divorce is lowered if the spouses drink approximately the same amount of alcohol.”
Splashman on February 9, 2013 at 11:05 PM
If you don’t start drinking, I’m gonna leave.
Socratease on February 9, 2013 at 11:24 PM
lol, Use me and abuse me baby, I’m there for you. Add in Mary K Hamm and Erika, paradise.
arnold ziffel on February 9, 2013 at 11:35 PM
I’ll drink to that.
ZK on February 10, 2013 at 9:30 AM
misleading headline. the research and story show that the less a couple drinks the less likely a divorce.
hmmmm I wonder why.
so the moral is don’t drink for a happy health functional marriage. Drinking brings nothing but problems.
unseen on February 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM