Are the Benefits of a Long Term Intimate Partner Equal to the Ones That You Might Get From a Married Couple?

Much of your research has focused specifically on marriages and other long term intimate relationships ar these benefits true for other close relationships too. One of the things i become interested in, actually, during the pandemic, is the importance of non close relationships. You know, that's something that weve, a lot of us have lost, but yes, absolutely. Friendships, for example, just matter so much. Eddener showed us that. And when you lookt other studies that have looked at just social connectedness in terms of how integrated you are with your social network, the social network findings are actually bigger.