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In college I had a sociology class where the professor had studied happiness in marriage. He ran a survey asking how happy people were with their marriage. 5 years later, he ran a follow up survey to people who said in the first survey that they were unhappy in their marriage and the only reason they would not get divorced was because of (children, religious doctrines, etc).

He was shocked to find, that of these marriages that were the least happy, something like 20% went ahead and got a divorce anyways, but, of the other 80%, their happiness scores were no different from the general population.

Moral of the story, perhaps people are a little too quick to pull the plug on a marriage.