Psychologists: That is why couples remain together even in bad relationships

We all know what a bad relationship means. When there is no passion, no spark of love, the routine has taken hold of you and you feel as if you no longer like each other.

Even if you're lucky enough and married to high school love, and you're still in love, you probably know some friends who have a bad relationship.

Why, though, do people remain together even in such relationships for no good or for no happiness? Is fear of change, or is loneliness just a bad thing?

A study published in the magazine Current Psychology has investigated the reasons behind this phenomenon, and they think they have discovered an answer.

The research, which has included about 1,000 people, has divided them into four groups:

The first group has been chosen to imagine that they are in a unhappy marriage.

The second group has been asked to imagine they've been married for a year

The third group has been asked to imagine that they bought a house together, so they invested in it financially.

And the fourth group has been asked to imagine that they are trying hard to protect this hypothetical marriage.

The results have found that 35 percent of people who invested money or were able to marry would stay with their mate, since only 25 percent of the first group and the second group have claimed to be together.

So this has led researchers to conclude that if you feel that you have invested money or can in marriage, you will be together again. Such things, they say, we value them more than love and happiness. Pretty depressing, isn't it?