Mel's Marriage - Part 3
August 15, 2003 |
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Transcript
Mel Gibson has been married to his one and only wife for 22 years. Although he acknowledges the couple has had their ups and downs and their share of what he calls “I’m outta’ here moments,” the actor says, “that’s what happens in a marriage. It’s easy to throw in the towel when there are bad days, but if you can just hang on through the grim times, there’s only one way to go, up.” He’s right! Family scholars
out of the University of Chicago studied over 5,000 married adults over a period of five years. They found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced became happier than couples that stayed together. And two thirds of unhappily married spouses that stayed together reported their marriages were happy five years later. Gibson says, “those tough experiences put you in the furnace, your mettle is tested, and you come out stronger.”
*Click here to learn more about the new study "Does Divorce Make People Happy? Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages" from the Institute for American Values. |
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