Here is the link to the study and all its glorious content and links to be found at: https://ifstudies.org/blog/married-people-are-living-their-best-lives and just in case the link gets lost in the future here is a download of the paper at:

“Yet, it is relatively easy to observe that married people enjoy higher well-being, when asked to reflect upon their life. They evaluate their current and future lives as being closer to the best possible life. They are much less likely to be struggling or suffering in their well-being, as defined by Gallup. Likewise, communities are happier when more married people live there and when children are being raised in married households. At the individual level, marriage has a larger predicted effect on well-being than other common demographic variables, except household income, which marriage usually raises.

Now, to God’s good design for our best life:

“And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him….And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” Genesi 2:18, 21-25

“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” – Jesus from Matthew 19:5-8

God is always right. He will never be wrong. Bank on it!

Also, see:

The research has shown that service attendance, rather than private spirituality or solitary practice, strongly predicts health.

And:

Parenting is key to good mental health for adolescents – Gallup