SPIN: A new book says married women are miserable. Don’t believe it.

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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/4/18650969/married-women-miserable-fake-paul-dolan-happiness

Women should be wary of marriage — because while married women say they’re happy, they’re lying. According to behavioral scientist Paul Dolan, promoting his recently released book Happy Every After, they’ll be much happier if they steer clear of marriage and children entirely.

“Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: f***ing miserable,” Dolan said, citing the American Time Use Survey, a national survey available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and used for academic research on how Americans live their lives.

The problem? That finding is the result of a grievous misunderstanding on Dolan’s part of how the American Time Use Survey works. The people conducting the survey didn’t ask married people how happy they were, shoo their spouses out of the room, and then ask again. Dolan had misinterpreted one of the categories in the survey, “spouse absent,” which refers to married people whose partner is no longer living in their household, as meaning the spouse stepped out of the room.

Oops.

The error was caught by Gray Kimbrough, an economist at American University’s School of Public Affairs, who uses the survey data — and realized that Dolan must have gotten it wrong. “I’ve done a lot with time-use data,” Kimbrough told me. “It’s a phone survey.” The survey didn’t even ask if a respondent’s spouse was in the room.

Dolan confirmed to me by email, “We did indeed misinterpret the variable. Some surveys do code whether people are present for the interview but in this instance it refers to present in the household. I have contacted the Guardian who have amended the piece and my editor so that we can make the requisite changes to the book. The substance of my argument that marriage is generally better for men than for women remains.”

This is only a snippet of the article but you get the point
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I'd say married women are less miserable than single women, but they're (almost all) still miserable; especially in the social media era.

I wonder what it is that makes women struggle with happiness so rampantly.
Which set of women are miserable....Single Women or Married women?


Correct Answer: Yes
 

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Which set of women are miserable....Single Women or Married women?


Correct Answer: Yes

Yea, I think the only time women are happy is when they have something new to look forward to. A new relationship, a new job, a pregnancy, upcoming wedding, vacation, etc... They're not great at the monotony of day-to-day.

Being a man is so :blessed: simply for the fact that boredom doesn't lead us to depression.
 

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Yea, I think the only time women are happy is when they have something new to look forward to. A new relationship, a new job, a pregnancy, upcoming wedding, vacation, etc... They're not great at the monotony of day-to-day.

Being a man is so :blessed: simply for the fact that boredom doesn't lead us to depression.
My uncle bought wife a business so she would have something to do and not bother him haha.
 

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Yea, I think the only time women are happy is when they have something new to look forward to. A new relationship, a new job, a pregnancy, upcoming wedding, vacation, etc... They're not great at the monotony of day-to-day.

Being a man is so :blessed: simply for the fact that boredom doesn't lead us to depression.


Not true, men are miserable as well. Many depressed/miserable people of all genders walking.
 

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My question is..

Are some married women miserable because they are married, in general, married for the wrong reasons or because they are married to the wrong person?

Not sure if women hate being married otherwise they wouldn't get married. I suspect that many women, as well as men, do it to adhere to societal standards, family/,friends pressure and social game rules...

The thing is..

People don't have to get married, but most people want a companion and many people want stability and security in their lives. I just don't think obtaining happiness, security and stability should be placed on anyone else. That should come from within, IMO..

Happiness is internal work and having a solid spiritual foundation is one of the solutions...
 

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:patrice:so much media, studies, trains of thought are being published and pushed that seem to focus on isolating individuals, male and female.
I know ur not married but are u miserable in ur relationship

Considering ur a bio male, but ur the female in the relationship

And ur baby mother is the male (she pegs you)
 
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