Love Dies in Marriage After 10 Years and 11 Months

True love lasts forever, researchers were saying a while back. Now, a new study comes to prove that, in married life, love tends to go stale after precisely 10 years and 11 months.

Though the study would seem to deny the existence of the so-called “7-year itch,” it also brings some bad news to those couples who believe they can see their future in statistics.

About 3,000 married couples took part in the new poll cited by the Daily Mail and the conclusion is that, after about 11 years of married life, things tend to go downhill for the partners.

Of course, the reasons why this happens are obvious: routine, too much time spent together and, last but not least, taking each other for granted.

“A quarter of those questioned said their marriage has lost its sparkle because they no longer bother going out together or make romantic gestures,” the Mail says of the findings.

A fifth of all couples taking part in the survey complained about their love life, saying they’d reached a point where they no longer found their partner attractive or appealing enough.

“And 12 per cent could not remember the last time their partner paid them any sort of compliment,” says the Mail.

Six in ten of all married couples said they often felt the need to be reminded in one way or another why they had tied the knot in the first place, because routine had gotten the best of them.

“It takes a special someone to step back from everyday life and realize it takes a bit of effort to keep the romance alive,” a spokesperson for the dating website that commissioned the survey says for the Mail.

The same spokesperson underlines that one of the biggest problem married couples often stumble upon is a stale love life. “This is one area which falls by the wayside after several years of marriage,” the rep says.