Research shows having a roommate is enough to combat feelings of loneliness. Marriage in and of itself isn’t shown to automatically increase happiness; most fo

Research shows having a roommate is enough to combat feelings of loneliness. Marriage in and of itself isn’t shown to automatically increase happiness; most folks reported having maintained their baseline mood after the wedding Maybe this is just old definitions needing to be updated, but “family” in the traditional mom-dad-kids all visit grandma and the like, isn’t essential to the species. Socializing is, but not the traditional structures