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"So just how long into dating should you wait to have sex if you want a happy marriage? At least a month, according to a study out of Brigham Young University&amp;amp;#8217;s School of Family Life. That&amp;amp;#8217;s because respondents who had sex with their future spouses in the first month of their relationships were found to be less satisfied with their marriages than those who delayed doing the deed a little (or a lot) longer. A month doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t seem like a crazy-long amount of time to wait to have sex, but it turns out that half of all couples get it on in the first month of their relationships. And if all those twosomes head to the altar, according to this study, they&amp;amp;#8217;re more likely to find holy matrimony to be a bummer than bliss. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t really buy it. Sure, there are people who jump into sex (and then engagement and then marriage) who later wind up regretting moving so quickly. But some of the happiest married couples I know, from what I can tell at least, hit the sheets on date two or three. They just had such chemistry from the get-go that they didn&amp;amp;#8217;t see a point in waiting. Do you think couples who wait more than a month to have sex wind up having more satisfying marriages than those who don&amp;amp;#8217;t delay? Why might it matter? Or do you think it&amp;amp;#8217;s a coincidence that the study turned up these results and there are more factors that make a marriage happy than how quickly a pair knocks boots? More About Making Your Marriage Happy 6 Qualities Your Future Husband Must Have Will He Be a Good Husband? Take This Quiz! A Calculator That Predicts Whether Your Marriage Will Last What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. And a special note to you, spammers; we officially declare you a major DON&amp;#x27;T. More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: George Doyle"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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