Statistics about Marriage:

66%: Percentage of divorces linked to Facebook.

Here are five safeguards couples can apply to Facebook and other social networks:

• Assess who you talk to the most. Is it a good mixture of men and women? Do you favor one friend over the others?

• Make your expectations very clear to your online friends.

• Do not engage in an intimate online conversation with someone who is not your spouse.

• Couples should set parameters about how much time and when they are online each day. If you're using Facebook at 2 a.m. when everyone else in the household is asleep, this could be the sign of a problem.

• Share your Facebook password with your spouse and vice-versa. That way you both know your Facebook private messages are not secret.

Marriage Sex Statistics

44%:  Percentage of married couples who "are fully satisfied with their sex lives."

Over 50%: Percentage of couples over 65 years old who are having sex more than once a week.

39%: Percentage of people who are looking for more love and romance in their marriage.

36%: Percentage of married couples that would like more quality time with their partner.

Source:  2Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey -- Sexual Satisfaction (2010) Highlights010 Pew Research Center Report

22%:  Percentage of U.S. wives who earned more than their husbands, up from 4% in 1970.

Source:  2010 Pew Research Center Report

70%:  Percentage of women who say they are less financially dependent on their spouses than their mothers were.

Source:  Time Magazine Poll, Oct. 2009

3.3 million:  Number of married couples in the US in which the wife is the sole earner.  That's 2.4 million more than in 1970.

Source:  Time Magazine - Oct. 26th, 2009

230%:  Increased likelihood of both members of a married couple being obese, compared with dating partners.  New new study links domestic blish to serious weight gain, i.e. the old expression, "We're fat and happy."

Source:  July 2009 Issue of Obesity - new research study of 6,949 individuals watched over a handful of years that linked weight change to relationship status.

62.6 million:  Number of married women in 2007.

Source: 2007 American Community Survey <http://factfinder.census.gov>

18%:  Percentage of married couples in which the wife earned at least $5,000 more than the husband in 2007. 

Source: U.S. Census - Families and Living Arrangements: 2007 

23%:  Percentage of married couples in which the wife had more education than the husband in 2007. 

Source:  U.S. Census - Families and Living Arrangements: 2007

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