A new study gives a clue to the secret to a long, blissful marriage: genetics. Yale University researchers concluded that the happiest, most secure-feeling couples in an experiment had at least one person in the pair with a variation in their gene receptor for oxytocin, known as the “love hormone.” “This study shows that how we feel in our close relationships is influenced by more than just our shared experiences with our partners over time,” said Joan Monin, associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. “In marriage, people are also influenced by their own and their partner’s genetic predispositions.”

You can call me “Misses Fix it”. I stayed in bad relationships constantly trying to fix something that was already broken, but here I am trying to understand what put me in that situation to begin with.