Marital Science Behind Cold Feet

If you are about to get married and have cold feet, listen up!

It's not so much marital advice as it is marital science, or at least what a new study just found out about cold feet right before the wedding.

Just about everyone has a concern or two before getting married, that's natural. After all, it's a big step. But a new study out of UCLA interviewed couples during the first part of their marriage and again for every 6 months during the next 4 years. The researchers involved in this study found that about half of the husbands had doubts before getting married, but fewer women did, only about slightly more than 1 in 3. But they also found out that although men had cold feet more often, women were better predictors of the success of the marriage.

As a matter of fact, wives that reported having doubts before getting married were more than twice as likely to be divorced 4 years later than those who didn't have any doubts about the whole thing.

But even the scientists involved in this study say that having cold feet before a wedding doesn't necessarily mean the marriage is doomed. Instead it should be used as a starting point to address issues you may have before tying the knot. And clearing up those issues before walking down the aisle could be the key to a long and happy life together.