Post Date December, 02 2023
Because of the seven-year itch, it is often seen as an insurmountable barrier in marriage. However, according to the latest research, in fact, the critical point for modern couples to have problems is not the seventh year, but the fifth year.
Scientists have found that couples begin to get bored with each other in the fourth year of marriage, and the risk of divorce reaches its peak before the fifth wedding anniversary.
Researchers in the United States, Russia and Northern Europe have studied the relationship between husband and wife and found that the honeymoon period of men and women after marriage only lasts less than 5 years, and the divorce period of most couples occurs between 5 and 10 years after marriage. If both husband and wife cross this dangerous critical point together, they are likely to stay together until old age.
The researchers found that as people become richer and richer, and the accumulation of common property between husband and wife is increasing, the cost of divorce such as dividing property has become a powerful factor that binds a couple together.
Why are there cracks that can easily lead to divorce in the 5 to 10 years of marriage? A researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany said: "One explanation is that in the 10 years after marriage, both husband and wife will experience major changes in their lives and have many challenging experiences, such as completing their studies, establishing a career, and having children."
Couples need to keep running in to adapt to new changes. Once problems occur in running in, problems in marriage will follow. In the following years, both husband and wife have groped out a solution to the problem.
The report also shows that those who marry early and those who live in cities are more likely to divorce, and marrying later can increase the stability of marriage.
The origin of the seven-year itch
The seven-year itch is a marriage phenomenon. Both men and women get married after falling in love. When the marriage enters its seventh year, with the familiarity of both parties, romance disappears with the pressure of life, and marriage enters its first dangerous period.
The word "seven-year itch" is an imported word. It is said that the ancient Romans believed that people's health condition would change once every seven years, and marriage would also have a crisis in seven years, which is the origin of the seven-year itch.
However, the seven-year itch has become a synonym for marriage and has been widely used since Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe starred in the movie "the seven-year itch" in 1955. This film tells the story of a man who has been married for seven years, after his wife went to the countryside for vacation, was aroused by a coquettish female tenant who had just moved in, and fantasized about it all day, but finally came back to his wife. The seven-year itch refers to that when men and women are married in the seventh year, they tend to have the desire for innovation and change and cause fission. From then on, the seven-year itch has become a barrier that must be carefully crossed in marriage.
Today, the seven-year itch is also used in other fields such as work.
