If you believe that you have found true romance, and your culture tells you that this is what a long-term relationship should be based on, there is less need to rely on social or family pressures to keep couples together, O'Sullivan argues.

Rather, with incomes decreasing and insecure jobs, unhappy couples often couldn't afford to divorce.

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes

Today's economic crisis could well generate a similar number of couples whose relationships have been irreparably(無法彌補(bǔ)地)ruined.

In the Great Depression many unhappy couples close to stick together because

What stands in the way of unhappy couples getting a divorce?

What will the current economic crisis eventually do to some married couples

Few couples can stand the test of economic hardships

What's less clear is whether divorce and separation rates rise in a recession - financial pressures mean couples argue more but make splitting up less affordable.

A recent research shows arguments about money were especially damaging to couples

The biggest problem is that couples assume each other know what's going on with their finances, but they don't.

The You Gov poll of 2, 000 people indicates that in a recession it is more expensive for couples to split up

conflicts between couples tend to rise

it is more expensive for couples to split up

couples show more concern for each other

The author suggests at the end of the passage that couples should discuss money matters to maintain a healthy relationship

A majority of them are young couples.

But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.

In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.

In the classic marriage vow, couples promise to stay together in sickness and in health.

Similarly, some couples don't have children because they don't want to sacrifice their own lifestyles to the lime and expense of a family.

To advise couples to think twice before having children

Design programs targeted at retired couples.

It was a popular activity for couples to leisurely walk through town to view the temporary works of chilly art.

While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi