"It was only after this that I discovered that being older is not bad, and that you can still do a lot of things," she says with a big smile. A study done in the U.S. showed that husband-wife relations are even more harmonious after the children leave home.
一九七六年美國一項名為「婚姻與家庭探討」的研究指出，中等階級家庭在孩子離家後，夫婦婚姻關係反而更和諧美滿。