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When Kristi Sullivan quizzed her husband about how much money she made last year, the Denver financial planner was shocked to discover he was off by a wide margin.

Although they have been married for 18 years, with two kids, her hubby missed the mark by $8,000.

"He should have known, because I told him once," laughs 43-year-old Kristi. "But I'm not sure that men always listen."

When older men have stressed-out wives, their own blood pressure may go up, a U.S. study suggests.

While previous research has linked stress and bad relationships to elevated blood pressure, less is known about how these challenges affect both members of a couple, and how the spouses affect one another, over time.

For the current study, researchers evaluated about 1,350 couples once in 2006 and again in 2010 to see how each person’s blood pressure might change based on shifts in their relationship satisfaction or stress levels.

The following is a news item selected by the Hitched editors during the week of November 06, 2014.

What Kind of Happiness Boost Do Kids Provide Parents?

New research published in the journal Demography looked at data collected on British and German households. In particular the researchers Mikko Myrskylä and Dr. Rachel Margolis looked to measure the happiness levels children brought to parents.

We hear it a lot… someone can't see the truth because they're too close to the source. This might be true in relationships as well, where we might be too close to see what's really going on. This study is based on a small sample, but it does raise some interesting insights. Dr. Nathaniel One small study asked strangers to identify cheaters just by viewing their interactions for a couple of minutes. Nathaniel Lambert, an assistant professor at Brigham Young University's School of Family Life authored the study, which looked at 51 undergraduate students at Florida State University and their romantic partners.

An elevator security camera captures Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice delivering a punch seen around the world. Carolina Panthers player Greg Hardy is convicted of assaulting and threatening to kill his then-girlfriend. Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer is accused of breaking his wife’s nose with a head-butt. And the list goes on and on.

It’s tempting to write off the recent flurry of domestic abuse allegations against NFL players as a phenomenon unique to the violent world of football. But the truth is, these cases came to the public’s attention simply because of the high profiles of those involved; they could just as easily have featured a businessman, an electrician or a teacher.

The following is a round-up of news items compiled by the Hitched editors during the week of August 28, 2014.

Mellow Your Marriage With Marijuana?
Whether you're for or against the legalization of marijuana, an undeniable positive is that we're finally putting the resources toward marijuana to have a better understanding of its impact and effects. For example, researchers at the University of Buffalo studied 634 couples over nine years of marriage and found that couples who smoked marijuana were less likely to report "intimate partner violence" (IPV).

The following is a round-up of news items compiled by the Hitched editors during the week of August 21, 2014.

Wives Who Seek Affairs Usually Still Love Their Husbands
This past weekend at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, Eric Anderson, a professor at the University of Winchester and Chief Science Officer at Ashley Madison, the website that promotes infidelity, revealed that he has been secretly reading the conversations of women looking for extra-marital partners. In total, he says he looked at over 4,000 conversations from 100 women, and suggests