2. The Male Partner Doesn’t Work Full-Time

A study at Harvard, published in the American Sociological Review of 2016, suggests that the actual division of labor between the couple matters even more than their combined finances. Researcher, Alexandra Killewald, looked at heterosexual marriages that began after 1975 and discovered that when the husband didn’t work full time the couple had a 3.3. percent chance of divorcing the following year, as opposed to 2.5 percent when he did have one.

On the other hand, the status of the wife’s employment did not really contribute to whether the couple stayed together or not. The researcher concluded that the stereotype of the male breadwinner is still alive and well, and can also affect the stability of one’s marriage!