The Lost Instinct by Erica Komisar, LCSW

The Lost Instinct by Erica Komisar, LCSW

Why Marriage Still Brightens Many Women’s Lives and Why We Tell a Different Story

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Erica Komisar, LCSW
Aug 26, 2025
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In a cultural landscape often inundated with narratives portraying marriage and parenthood as restrictive burdens, a groundbreaking report from The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute presents a compelling counter-narrative: married women, surprisingly, report significantly higher levels of happiness …

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