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Science says: this is the ideal age difference for a happy relationship

If you are 20 years apart, there is a 95% chance that the love will end soon.

What is the most suitable age difference between the two partners? Although they say that years do not play any role in love, in reality it is not entirely so. Couples with this age difference have the happiest relationships.

Although many couples are proof that age doesn't matter in love, but many studies have shown that it is age difference one of the pillars of a relationship, although on the other hand it is also true that for love and a happy relationship age is more important emotional maturity. And what is she like ideal age difference for a happy relationship?

Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are separated by exactly 20 years.
Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are separated by exactly 20 years.

Emory University research, which covered three thousand couples, showed that the ideal difference between the two partners one year or that there is no age difference at all, because with the age difference the probability of the breakup of the relationship increases exponentially. Psychologists have found that in couples where the partner is only one year apart, the probability of divorce is only three percent. With a five-year difference, the probability of the breakup of the relationship is already 18%, and with ten, it is already 39%. If there is a difference between them 20 years, the relationship is practically doomed, as research has shown that it is breaking up 95 percent such partners.

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George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are separated by 17 years.
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are separated by 17 years.

Statistically speaking, therefore, couples with a larger age difference have more chances to breakup of the relationship like couples who grow closer over the years. One of the reasons is that partners with a larger age difference have a different view of the world, different values, different tastes... and sex also plays an important role. Libido it is stronger in women over the years, while in men it dries up. It is an interesting fact that they have couples who last more than two years together, a much better—40 percent—chance of staying together and that regardless of age.

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