What changes your commitment to a relationship?

Over the course of eight monthly interviews, volunteers rated how likely they felt it was that they would marry their current partner. That percentage score on a scale from 0 to 100 indicated to researchers how serious participants were about their relationships. If their "commitment to wed" went up or down, researchers asked about why. The thousands of reasons people gave fit within these 14 broad themes.

Table: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Machia, L. V., & Ogolsky, B. G. (2020). The reasons people think about staying and leaving their romantic relationships: A mixed-method analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Get the data