Harvard study showing husbands don't emotionally support wives in marriages. Is actually completely incorrect
Another meme, doing the roads is about how men don't emotionally support their wives which is the alleged findings from a Harvard study. You may have seen this being circulated on Facebook, reddit and all of the other usual channels. The thing is the interpretation of the results are at best fanicful. If you read the actual study there some glaring issues with it. You can read the study yourself here . Something that is taken out of context is the following synopsis: "When Tim came home after emotionally draining days in the classroom, both he and Lisa reported that he was a poor listener. He seemed distracted during Lisa’s recollections about her day and showed less affection and concern for her feelings in general. Consequently, the couple rated the time they spent together as a family worse — tense and less enjoyable. We observed this pattern throughout our sample. When husbands had stressful workdays with extensive emotional demands, they provided less suppo...