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Previous episode Saying "we": what one small word shows about a couple

What happy couples do differently: the science of staying close after kids

Commitment and the long view: why lasting couples think in decades

Some years of a relationship are simply harder than others, and the hardest often come with young children. Researchers who pooled data from more than 165,000 people found a shape in those years, and what keeps couples going while they are in the low part.

  1. 1 You and Miva have been together nine years. These are the busiest ones yet. Some nights, awake with the baby, Miva wonders if it will always feel like this.9 years togetheryouMivathe baby

    You and Miva have been together nine years. These are the busiest ones yet. Some nights, awake with the baby, Miva wonders if it will always feel like this.

  2. 2 Two questions hide in that thought. What keeps couples together through a hard stretch? And does the hard stretch ever end?youMiva

    Two questions hide in that thought. What keeps couples together through a hard stretch? And does the hard stretch ever end?

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