You don't have to have the same personality for a happy marriage.

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Community of characters is not the secret of a happy marriage. This is the conclusion reached by American scientists from Stanford University.

Many experts and ordinary people have their own explanations for why some people manage to live in a happy marriage for 30-40 years or more, and the majority divorce within a few years after pronouncement of marriage vows.

But most often the standard version is heard that the couple's characters did not match. By the way, this is also the most popular explanation in civil registry offices and courts during divorces. And so scientists interviewed 35 heterosexual couples from China who have been married for at least one year.

All participants in this survey went through a series of tests that allow you to determine their personality type and character traits. The volunteers were then asked to self-assess how satisfied they were with family relationships. And it turned out that the coincidence of characters or personality types did not guarantee maximum satisfaction with family relationships. In other words, people who had the same personality were not necessarily happy in marriage.

The main secret turned out to be brain synchronicity. Scans of this organ showed that when a couple was shown videos related to marriage and family, the same areas of the brain were activated in the happiest couples. Now it remains to find out what exactly these zones are responsible for, and whether it is possible to achieve their synchronization in some magical way, or whether it is pure luck, as the statistics of happy families say.