TABLE 2.

Relationship adjustment of those couples who stayed together over the 10 Years.

	Pre	1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	10 years
Married women
Mean	23.19	23.81	23.27	23.64	23.81	20.30
SD	4.86	4.74	4.97	4.92	5.27	5.65
Cohabiting women
Mean	22.00	21.91	22.18	22.82	21.33	15.73
SD	5.08	3.68	3.27	3.76	4.46	6.11
Married men
Mean	23.60	23.67	24.05	24.27	23.82	23.76
SD	4.79	4.46	5.12	4.93	5.18	5.42
Cohabiting men
Mean	22.03	22.93	22.34	23.18	23.39	22.09
SD	4.13	3.47	3.45	5.09	6.50	6.35

n = 161 intact relationships over 10 years.