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Perhaps you can relate? Same-sex couples are happier than straight couples, a recent study finds. After consulting with more than 25,000 people in the UK, over 9,000 in Australia, Janeen Baxter and Francisco Perales of the University of Queensland found that gay and lesbian couples tend to be happy, if not the happiest. Said Professor Baxter: “Our results provide robust evidence to combat deep-rooted and erroneous social perceptions of same-sex relationships being conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional. “In fact, relationship quality in same-sex couples was...

A couple in Victoria, Australia, who’ve chosen to keep their identities a secret, were recently very excited for their upcoming wedding. The wedding was planned for November at a Presbyterian church and everything seemed to be going smoothly. Adjacently, Australia is in the throes of a public vote deciding the public view on same-sex marriage and whether it should be legal in the country. Last month, the bride of the couple decided to share her thoughts on the situation on social media. “I...

Gay Men’s Psychotherapist Explains Difference Between Straight/Gay Relationships Are We So Much Different After All? Ken Howard, a Psychotherapist specializing in gay men’s mental health, took his expertise to the Huffington Post. He compares the differences between heterosexual and homosexual couples. His research is thorough and blunt. According to Huffington Post, Howard breaks down his twenty-four years of research into ten key differences between the straight and gay couples he’s counseled. In the written article, he stresses that this is from his...

Same-sex couples are more likely to work on their sex lives. Same-sex couples are more likely to have a happy sex life in long-term relationships compared to straight couples. And not only are gay people more likely to work on and try new things in their sex life, they are also less likely to believe they are ‘destined’ to be with a perfect partner. According to new research by the University of Toronto, both same-sex and opposite-sex couples were happier when they...