From wedding bells to wedding bills
Your wedding day is one of the happiest days of your life, but that is short lived not long after saying “I do”.
Psychologists from Denver University tracked 168 people before and after they got married to prove their hypothesis where individuals who transition to marriage would report increases in general health.
However, they could not prove their hypothesis with the physical and mental wellbeing only increasing before the wedding and takes a dip after the ceremony.
Newlyweds also reported lower life satisfaction, higher levels of psychological distress as well as an increase in alcohol consumption.
The findings were published in the Journal of Family Psychology but could not clearly explain it.
Could possibly be from the huge wedding bill? Who’s to say.
It did note that couples were extremely excited in the lead up to the wedding, to have all their close family and friends, to celebrate love which helps increase the physical and mental wellbeing.
When the wedding is over, everyone goes their separate way and reality hits, all we know is that it takes two to tango and make the relationship work and support each other.
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