Top 5 Unexpected facts about Relationships

Top 5 Unexpected facts about Relationships.

5. Picture of a Loved one can reduce pain:


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A new study shows that just looking at a picture of your beloved can help reduce pain. Holding or touching a loved one’s hand helps in the same way. The study included women who had been in good relationships with their boyfriends for at least 6 months. During the experiment, they reported their pain levels while looking at pictures of their boyfriends, strangers, and a chair.

Photos of partners really helped women endure the pain. We often think that social support should be expressed by an action or with the help of words. But the experiment proves that even a picture can have a great impact.

4. Romantic movie will hep you to save your marriage life:


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A new 3-year-long study has shown that the risk for divorce decreases if spouses watch romantic films and discuss them. After watching these movies, both partners have a better understanding of what they’re doing right and wrong while interacting with each other. Thus, there are less conflicts and misunderstandings.

3. Modern relationships need self-realization :

Eli J. Finkel, together with his colleagues from Northwestern University, has studied the main reasons leading to divorce. The results have shown that in modern relationships, partners expect more psychological satisfaction, while in the past, they wanted to fulfill their need for safety.

People think that their marriage will help them fulfill their self-esteem and self-actualization needs. To fulfill these needs, sufficient investment of time and psychological resources is required. If there are not enough resources, or one of the partners doesn’t want to put forth effort, the other partner gets frustrated. In this case, the other partner has to reconsider their marriage expectations in order to not get disappointed.

2. Men with Lower IQ will Cheat their partner :

Scientists at Saint Louis University have found out that men with higher IQs are less likely to cheat on their partners. The authors have analyzed the results of polls involving thousands of adults and teenagers and revealed that smarter men valued monogamy and sexual exclusivity.

1. Couples who have living with each other for 25 years or more develop similar facial features:


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Scientists from the University of Michigan have studied the convergence in the physical appearance of spouses. The results show that after 25 years together, there’s an increase in apparent similarity. What’s more, an increase in resemblance was associated with greater reported marital happiness.

Among the explanations of this phenomenon that were examined, one based on a theory of emotional efference emerged as promising. This theory assumes that emotional processes produce vascular changes that are regulated by facial musculature.