Marriage and Happiness Do you think that middle-age and older married couples are more or less depressed than unmarried individuals? I have a cousin who is scared of marriage because he fears he will be unhappy. He says that maybe when he is forty years old he will marry a twenty year old girl to pop out a few kids for him. If he was not my cousin, I would not like a person like …showed first 75 words of 1219 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1219 total…marry. If I am not careful with choosing who I will marry, I might end up marrying someone and being completely unhappy, or I will end up in a divorce. People have control over these things, as well as I do. It is beneficial to be married. Among the benefits, married couples experience lower levels of depressive symptomatology than unmarried individuals. Indeed, growing old with a loved one will give one some sense of joy.