"If you want to know whether your marriage will survive, look at your spouse's yearbook photos. Psychologists have found that how much people smile in old photographs can predict their later success in marriage.In one test, the researchers looked at people's college yearbook photos, and rated their smile intensity from 1 to 10. None of the people who fell within the top 10 percent of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10 percent of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended, the researchers say. (Scoring was based on the stretch in two muscles: one that pulls up on the mouth, and one that creates wrinkles around the eyes.)
In a second trial, the research team asked people over age 65 to provide photos from their childhood (the average age in the pictures was 10 years old). The researchers scored each person's smile, and found that only 11 percent of the biggest smilers had been divorced, while 31 percent of the frowners had experienced a broken marriage.
Overall, the results indicate that people who frown in photos are five times more likely to get a divorce than people who smile.. . . " Smiles Predict Marriage Success
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too bad they didn't have botox at the age of 8 for me!!! I had an "eleven" imprinted between my eyes since birth......got it from my mom......but then agin, dad's got some major laugh lines round his eyes....must of set each other's lines off to last this freak'n long....that's all i gotta say bout that......i'm drunk...it's mother's day...did i tell ya?????
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