Focus more on your partner than yourself study shows.
Want a better love life that goes beyond Valentine's Day romance? Prize your partner's happiness and well-being above your own, a new survey suggests.
Those feelings -- called altruistic love -- are at the heart of the survey, which included more than 1,300 people, 60% of whom were married.
The findings:
• Married people with lots of altruistic love for their spouse had happier marriages.
• Married or not, altruistic love for a significant other was tied to higher levels of general happiness.
The survey was part of the General Social Survey, directed by Tom W. Smith, PhD, of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
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