Identify a true statement about marital satisfaction.

A. Married couples report less emotional satisfaction from sex than do single or cohabiting couples.
B. Marital happiness is negatively affected by premarital cohabitation, extramarital affairs, wives' job demands, and wives' longer working hours.
C. Increases in husbands' share of housework appear to increase marital satisfaction among husbands but decrease it among wives.
D. Married men tend to place more importance on emotional expressiveness than do married women.


Answer: B

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