Indeed, Dr. Goldberg believes that couples should have "rough and ragged" beginnings when they sort things out before looking forward to a long and pleasant ascent in the status of the partnership. A Florida State University research indicated that couples who can be openly furious in the beginning are happy in the long run. Researchers such as Scott Stanley have started to offer a significantly more balanced picture of earlier findings. Some cohabitators appear to be more equal than others, with one group displaying all of the warning signals of catastrophe that earlier studies had highlighted, and another, lucky, group living happily ever after.