A study by the University of Michigan finds that couples who drink alcohol together are likely to live longer, supporting the idea that shared drinking habits can enhance marital satisfaction and longevity., Kira Birditt, a research professor at the U-M Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center, found that couples who are concordant in their drinking behavior tend to live longer.
“The purpose of this study was to look at alcohol use in couples in the Health and Retirement Study and the implications for mortality,” she said. “And we found, interestingly, that couples in which both indicated drinking alcohol in the last three months lived longer than the other couples that either both indicated not drinking or had discordant drinking patterns in which one drank and the other did not.
The study specifically looked at drinking patterns and defined “drinking” very broadly, examining whether or not a participant had had a drink within the last three months. However, it may suggest the importance of remembering how spouses can impact each other’s health. Drinking concordance among couples may be a reflection of compatibility among partners in their lifestyles, intimacy, and relationship satisfaction.
“We don’t know why both partners drinking is associated with better survival. I think using the other techniques that we use in our studies in terms of the daily experiences and ecological momentary assessment questionnaires could really get at that to understand, for example, focusing on concordant drinking couples,” she said.
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