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Forget chocolates and the flowers, gentlemen – the key to a happy marriage may be as simple as getting on with your wife's friends.
忘掉巧克力和鮮花吧，先生們--幸福婚姻的關鍵可能只是要你和妻子的朋友和睦相處就行。
A new study reveals that husbands who disapprove of their wife's chums are twice as likely to get divorced. However, women do not have to like their husband's friends for their marriage to survive.
據一項最新研究顯示，那些不喜歡妻子朋友的人，其離婚概率是其他人的兩倍。然而，女人卻不必為了維持一段婚姻而去刻意喜歡丈夫的朋友。
Researchers believe that women are less willing to give up their friends – even when they are disliked by their husbands. In contrast, men will ditch people if their wives do not like them.
研究人員認為，女性對自己的朋友看得更重、更不願放棄--即使這些朋友不招她們丈夫待見。相反，如果自己妻子不喜歡，男人就會和他的朋友們斷交。
Women are also more likely to discuss marital problems with friends, which increases the risk of marriage difficulties and divorce.
女性也更有可能和朋友討論婚姻問題，這也增大了婚姻困難和離婚的風險。
The study, by researchers at Adelphi University and other centres in America, tracked 400 couples over a 16-year period to compare the risk of divorce with the couples' attitudes to spouses' friends.
這項研究由阿德爾菲大學及美國其他中心的研究人員共同進行，他們在16年的時間裡共對400對夫妻進行了追蹤調查，對夫妻離婚的風險以及他們對配偶朋友的態度進行了比較。
In the first year, couples were asked if their spouse had friends who they would rather they did not spend time with. Couples were asked the next year about interference from friends.
在第一年裡，夫妻們被問到是否不願意和配偶的朋友相處。第二年他們則被問到來自朋友們的幹擾。
The results show that 44 per cent of wives and 29 per cent of husbands said their spouse had pals that they would rather he or she did not spend time with.
結果表明，44%的妻子們和29%的丈夫們表示不希望另一半和他們的某些朋友交往。
They also show that the more husbands disapproved of their wife's friends, the greater the risk of divorce over the following 16 years, even after other factors were taken into account.
研究人員還表明，丈夫們越不滿自己妻子的朋友，那麼在接下來16年裡，他們離婚的風險就越大--即使考慮到了其他因素。
Writing in the Journal Of Social And Personal Relationships, the researchers said: 'Wives may turn to friends for solutions to problems, including marital issues, and their husbands may perceive these social interactions as interfering in their marriage if they do not fully approve of these friends.'
該研究刊載在《個人和社會關係》雜誌上，研究人員表示：「妻子們可能會向朋友尋求解決問題的方法，其中就包括婚姻的問題。而如果丈夫們不滿意妻子的這些朋友，他們就會把這些社交活動視為對自己婚姻的幹擾。」