Generally, married men tend to have better health and live longer, all statistics point to that. There is a relation between needing to stay healthy and provide, due to higher chance of fertility and probability of getting strong, healthy offspring.
Of course (because there are special people out there, so it needs to be said), this is generalized information, averages. It may show tendencies of bigger group as a whole, yet not fully represent individual cases. And there is also margin of error, which can't be forgotten. If you don't know why, please learn more about the topic. If you care enough, you will go out and find it, otherwise it's safe to assume you don't give a fuck, so why should I and give everything on silver plate?
Back to topic.
What about happiness?
Well, this is interesting
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It seems that you aren't getting happier after the marriage, it can even make you less happier and divorce tends to make you happier. Weird, right?
But, if you were happy before marriage and it reduces your happiness, it just goes back to state before marriage.
So what, it makes you healthier but less happy? Oh my, would that implicate any correlation between endless need of providing for a family and your mood?
Anyway, back on that happiness study, from questions they were asking, it seems that getting married didn't result in getting happier or more satisfied.
So what, guys just tend to marry stupid, self-centered bitches and regret it? Or is it something else? Maybe, this deal, called marriage isn't as great as it sounds to be? Maybe it deteriorated enough, that it's not as worth as it was decades ago?
Less and less men want to get married and have kids. Some realize, that they don't need to pursue good money as much, because why? For who? Some can even survive on part-time jobs, all is fine and dandy.
Sexual satisfaction? Sure, getting a blowjob or sex feels shitload better, but when even that deal is not expected or it's just not worth pursuing, men don't bother. Pornhub growing popularity doesn't come from nothing, you know?
And funny thing is, there are studies that show pretty much what's going on, but right now, showing those and talking about would cause gigantic shitstorm, related to ideas, politics and society in general.
But yeah, there is a problem.
And it's not as simple as "don't marry self-centered bitch", it's more of an effect of decades that slowly changed few things. Of course, there are countries where marriage problem isn't as big. Ironically, such countries and their statistics give prove on problematic studies people would like to not talk about.