<p>E. W. Burgess and Paul Waffin, Engagement and Marriage (New York: Lippincott, 1953), pp. 614, 618.</p>

<p>Gordon Watson, »Happiness among Adult Students,« Journal of Educational Psychology 21 (1930).</p>

<p>Among white couples, 71 percent of the wives and 52 percent of the husbands who were »not too happy« expressed martial dissatisfaction; 22 percent of the wives and 18 percent of the husbands who were »pretty happy« expressed marital dissatisfaction; and 4 percent of the wives and 2 percent of the husbands who were »very happy« expressed marital dissatisfaction. Ibid., p. 63.</p>

<p>Renne, op. cit., p. 64.</p>

<p>Susan R. Orden and Norman M. Bradburn, »Dimensions « Marriage Happiness,« American Journal of Sociology 13 (May 1968): 731</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 159.</p>

<p>Norman M. Bradburn, The Structure of Psychological Well-Being (Chicago: Aldine, 1969), p 150.</p>

<p>One study of couples undergoing counseling found 30 percent of the wives and 18 percent of the husbands unhappy in the first year of marriage. More wives than husbands had been unhappy from the very beginning. After the first several years, halfs were unhappy, especially the women. »A larger percentage of wives than husbands (14 percent compared to 4 percent) had expressly turned negative. For these wives, despair or nopeiessnisss was the main theme running through their responses.« Emile L.

<p>Karen S. Renne, »Correlates of Dissatisfaction in Marriage«, Journal of Marriage and the Family 12 (February 1970): 56</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 110. Women worry more than their husbands also (P-42), but the authors believe that worrying implies »an investment in life, the absence of worrying a lack of involvement and aspiration« (p. 30)</p>