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Should we worry if we have doubts before saying “I do”?
在說出“我愿意”之前感到懷疑，我們該為此感到擔心嗎？
Some say it's normal to feel doubt. But new research suggests that pre-wedding uncertainty actually predicts marital dissatisfaction. Especially when that doubt is coming from the bride.
有人說感到懷疑是正常的。但是一項新的研究認為，婚前的不確定是婚后不美滿的先兆，尤其是在新娘感到懷疑的情況下。
Scientists surveyed 232 couples within the first three months of marriage and then did follow-up surveys every six months for four years. The average age for the men was 27, for the women, 25.
科學家們調查了232對結婚不滿三個月的夫婦，然后在接下來的四年里，每六個月對他們進行一次隨訪。這次調查中男性平均年齡為27歲，女性平均年齡為25歲。
In the first survey 47 percent of men and only 38 percent of women said they had, at some point, felt uncertain about their upcoming marriage. Four years later, ten percent of couples in which only the guy had doubts wound up divorced. But when only the gal was uncertain, 18 percent of the couples split up. And when both parties had doubts, the divorce rate was only slightly higher at 20 percent. The study is in the Journal of Family Psychology.
在第一次調查中，有47%的男性表示在（說“我愿意”）那一刻感到懷疑，而只有38%的女性表示對未知的婚姻生活感到懷疑。四年后，10%只有男性感到懷疑的夫婦以離婚收場。但18%只有女性感到懷疑的夫婦分手了。當雙方都感到懷疑時，離婚率略高，達到20%。這項研究發表在《家庭心理學雜志》上。
Overall, when the bride is uncertain she is two and a half times more likely to be divorced within four years, compared with women who expressed no hesitation before tying the knot. So, at least some of the time, that pre-wedding doubt seems well-founded.
總的來說，相比在喜結良緣前不對未來婚姻生活感到懷疑的新娘，那些不確定的新娘在四年后離婚的可能性是前者的2.5倍。因此，在某些時候，婚前懷疑似乎也是有根據的。
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