Personally, I am happier being married. Of course, some of that happiness is because I was FINALLY 'allowed' to marry the man I love. More to the point, I am content. It's cliche, but I got my 'happily ever after.'

....hahaha, that's like asking, "Is a bird that can fly happier than one than cannot?"

Living with your best friend, someone who has always got your back has huge benefits, living with your worst enemy on the other hand is sheer hell. I've known people with long and happy marriages (30 years+) and that is hard to beat, but not all marriages are like that and marriage itself is not for everyone.

i'd say it depends upon the human being in question I live with my best friend but we have separate flats in teh same building, I cook and sometimes clean for him and he looks after out finances and does the thinking and research about what to buy etc. we see each other at least twice a day so we have time alone and time together it works nicely.

Though I need to be back with my ex like I need a hole in the head, nevertheless I miss the anchor that being married provides.

Insufficient data. Does not compute.

Leave the word married out and use having a bond with someone would be more appropiate I should think

It all depends on who you are married to. If you wife is a b then so will your life. If you have a good wife then your life will be better.

We are responsible for our own happiness. We can allow others to add to it or take away from it. It's our choice.

It depends. Married people can be happier. So can single. Sometimes marriage is more stress. Imagine this scene from the past. I see this man with his arm around his wife as TV shows are discussed. He says "as for me and this house nobody here watches 90210." That's interesting. He has his hand up his wife's ass like a puppet. I'm sure it was a stressful relationship in a stressful household. I say this and I have never personally watched 90210 myself. It's just that who are you to speak for other people and what they can watch on TV?

I think being happy is something that you allow yourself to be.
People in good marriages are probably happier than most single people and are probably way happier than people in bad marriages.
As for the single people they'll have to learn to be happy with themselves first.
Marriage isn't a pass to happiness.
Also human beings aren't designed to be ridiculously happy all the time.

According to a study by data analyst Mintel, 61 per cent of single women are happy being single, versus 49 per cent of single men.

The survey also found that 75 per cent of single women have not actively looked for a relationship in the last year, compared to 65 per cent of single men.

And the proposed reason for this is that for women, being in a heterosexual relationship is actually a lot of hard work, and generally requires more effort and labour than for men.

“There’s evidence that women spend longer on domestic tasks than men and I think they also do more emotional work - so they still do more housework and cooking and things as well as more emotional labour,” Professor Emily Grundy, of the University of Essex

[independent.co.uk]

Maybe, maybe not.

Yes and no

Therapists say so yes happuer peiple married. In my marriage..no..lol.

They tend to live longer does that mean anything?

HahahahahahahHahahaha

Check the post of the married without intimacy for 6 years and get back to us.

You can be alone and unhappy or alone and happy. You can be married and unhappy or you can be married and happy. If you marry someone who turns out to be unhappy most of the time you have a choice as to whether or not to remain in that marriage.

I do not think that anyone can make another person person happy but he or she sure can make another person unhappy.

Only for legal reasons. albatross stay with each other for a really long life and don't need someone they pay to tell them they can be together.

For a while absolutely yes. Now, "for a while" mean different span of time for different couples. It can go for about a day for some, to a life time for very very few lucky ones....

Not in my case.

Statisticaly it depends on gender. Married men live longer but married women less

I'm not married and I'm happy.

Certainly not necessarily.