As children leave home marital satisfaction tends to pick up again.

And prior to the divorce, these couples have lower rates of marital satisfaction.

Some couples feel open marriage has increased their marital satisfaction.

Open marriage can in some cases increase marital satisfaction.

Levels of marital satisfaction for these couples are often quite high.

Positive humor is expected to be related to intimacy and marital satisfaction.

The study found each kind of support contributed positively to marital satisfaction.

Researchers have recently proposed a motivational model of marital satisfaction.

The new study also explored the factors that contributed to a decline in marital satisfaction.

The effect of marital satisfaction was found to differ between men and women.