Confirmed: Marriage drives women to drink

Marriage may drive a woman to drink, not because she’s unhappy but because she’s influenced by her husband’s alcohol consumption, new research suggests. And men, on average, drink more than women.

Men, on the other hand, spend less time with their drinking buddies and more with their wives after tying the knot. The result? Married men down fewer beers than their single counterparts…

Men and women also responded differently to divorce in terms of their drinking. Recently divorced men drank significantly more than men in long-term marriages, while women’s alcohol consumption fell sharply after the dissolution of a marriage.