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...graphs to tell us what we suspected all along. The latest, entitled "The Nature and Predictors of the Trajectory of Change in Marital Quality for Husbands and Wives over the First 10 Years of Marriage," was published this month in the Journal of Developmental Psychology. Cutely subtitled "Predicting the Seven-Year Itch," this extensive research charts the decline in the quality of marriages of more than 500 Midwestern couples, surveyed over 10 years...
...research, married couples' assessment of the quality of their marriage starts to sink rapidly just after the "I do" and continues downward through the first four years. The quality of marriage plateaus after that first dip and then declines again during years eight, nine and 10--the "seven-year itch" part. Couples reported that the presence of children is, not surprisingly, a considerable stress on a marriage; the research states that having children at home prevented married couples from maintaining "positive illusions about their relationships...
Lawrence Kurdek, Ph.D., the Wright State researcher who wrote the seven-year-itch study, said that its grim statistics actually made him hopeful. "Knowing the pattern of marriage relationships might help couples stay together, if they can come up with positive ways to cope with it," he says. "We have to build into marriage the idea that there will be lots of change...
...founded Start-Up Resources, and has since helped 45 companies get up and running--15 in the past two months alone. Although she charges $110 an hour, she still turns down six or seven jobs a week...
...Chin is about to make partner at Information Technology Ventures, a small but rising Palo Alto VC firm. Chin handles the firm's portfolio of seven Internet companies and scours the Valley for others to fund. It's a frenetic job, but Chin crackles with rapid-fire energy. "We're going for the early-stage, high-risk, big hits," he says, piloting his midnight-blue Mercedes down I-280 on a recent Wednesday. "When I evaluate start-ups I ask, 'Is this a multibillion-dollar market? Can this be a billion-dollar company?' We want companies that can be industry...