New research published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy has shown that the more materialistic a marriage, the less happy they're likely to be. The study looked at more than 1700 married couples, and it found that those with a priority on money and material goods had lower levels of marital satisfaction.
This was found when one partner was more materialistic, or even when both had an equally high level of wanting shiny new things. Couples with lower materialism tended to be happier in their relationships.
Full article is at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15332691.2011.613306
Someone should have told this to my cousin, before he married my ex-housemate.
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