Marriage may drive a woman to drink, not because she’s unhappy but because she’s influenced by her husband’s alcohol consumption, new research suggests. And men, on average, tend to drink more than women. Men, on the other hand, spend less time with their drinking buddies and more with their wives after tying the knot. So married men down fewer beers than their single counterparts. Sociologists from the University of Cincinnati, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University and the University of Texas at Austin said their study showed men and women also responded differently to divorce in terms of their drinking. Recently divorced men drank significantly more than men in long-term marriages, while women’s alcohol consumption fell sharply after the dissolution of a marriage.