Looking for love? Australian study has some ideas
If you're looking for happily ever after, Australian researchers have a suggestion: Find a partner who shares your smoking habits
Researches at an Australian National University studied 2,482 married or cohabiting couples and learned what couples that were going strong after seven years had over those that did not last.
Age was a key factor. If a man is one year younger up to three years older than his partner, the couple had less than half the separation risk than those with the man being nine years older or more than two years younger.
Sharing the same desire to either have or not have kids is a factor as well.
Money talks, even in relationships. According to the study, couples with a lower average income were more likely to split than those with moderate or high incomes.
A shared habit of smoking also can be a factor. In couples where one partner smoked and the other didn't, the separation rate shoots to more than 75 percent than couples where neither partner smoked.
Interestingly enough, religion, education and alcohol had no effect on the stability of the relationship status.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009472879_apasaustraliahappilyeverafter.html
This was a neat article to read. I love reviewing results of studies done outside the U.S.. Australian culture, however different from our own, has similarities. The results might vary here in America, but I think many would be the same. I was surprised that the religion, education and alcohol didn't have an affect. I would think those would be some of the top factors in relationship stability.
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