If there was a simple way to improve communication, commitment, intimacy, stability, and overall happiness in a marriage, who wouldn’t take advantage of it? Yet more than half of married people report that they don’t make use of this one, simple habit to bolster their relationship with their husband or wife.
The simple habit is continuing to regularly date your spouse even after marriage. A landmark study by W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew of the National Marriage Project found that regular date nights for married couples are associated with better relationships and lower divorce rates when compared with those couples who don’t date.