According to a Gallup Poll published Friday, a married life is often a happier life. Adults who are married reported being far happier than all others.
“Any way you analyze those data, we see a fairly large and notable advantage to being married in terms of how people evaluate their life,” poll author Jonathan Rothwell told CNN.
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