According to a Department of Health and Human Services study, marital fights can be easily defused and married couples made more happy if the “wife calms down” quickly. The study, according to HHS Health Beat’s Ira Dreyfuss, indicates that when women “calm down” early, fights are more quickly defused and married couples are happier.
“This isn’t about who wins the argument,” Dreyfuss notes, “but a study of hot marital fights indicates that when the wife calms down, the couples are more happy.”
“The marriages that were the happiest were the ones in which the wives were able to calm down quickly during marital conflict,” said Lian Bloch, a researcher with the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto.
Bloch says calm wives were able to look constructively for ways to deal with the emotions and talk about ways to solve the problems. Happiness didn’t change if the husband calmed down quickly.
