Is the four year itch real?
There are few more complex experiences in life than falling in love – and crucially, maintaining it. So often we’re flooded with philosophical quotes about how to navigate it and what itfeel like. Just as you’ll hear someone say, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be easy’, another will chime in with ‘Nothing in life worth having comes easy’. The conflicting messages make for a whirlwind of confusion – but rarely do we see such a dichotomy when people talk about making a marriage work.
There’s science to back the four-year-itch theories too. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, was researching the seven-year-itch when she discovered there’s a pattern in four-year marriages too. Collecting global data on marriage and divorce, she found that for couples who divorced, the most common length of marriage was four years.
‘The four-year divorce peak among modern humans may represent the remains of an ancestral reproductive strategy to stay bondedlong enough to raise a child through infancy and early toddlerhood,’ Fisher concluded. ‘Thus, we may have a natural weak point in our unions. By understanding this susceptibility in our human nature, we might become better able to anticipate, and perhaps be able to avoid, the four-year itch.
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