{"id":15211,"date":"2025-02-11T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:57:53","slug":"4-ingredients-for-a-happy-long-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15211","title":{"rendered":"4 Ingredients for a Happy, Long Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/4-ingredients-for-a-happy-long-marriage\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/4-ingredients-for-a-happy-long-marriage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute found that the ingredients for a healthy and strong marriage include shared church attendance, frequent date nights, a strong level of commitment, and protectiveness over the marriage by prioritizing loyalty and faithfulness. The study of two thousand married men and women found that the strongest predictors of feeling that one\u2019s marriage is \u201chighly unlikely\u201d to end in divorce were the same predictors of being \u201cvery happy\u201d in marriage.<\/p>\n<p>So, church attendance, prioritizing the relationship, being fully committed, and protecting one\u2019s marriage really do make a difference. During National Marriage Week, why not focus on at least one of these to improve in your marriage? And then add the others over the next several weeks and months. Doing so sets an example of God-honoring marriage to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/4-ingredients-for-a-happy-long-marriage\/ A new report from the Institute for Family Studies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15212,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions\/15212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}