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This study analyzes the impacts of household work participation and shared activities between couples on marital relationship and depression among retired men and women with retired husbands. To investigate this, a survey of 367 married people is conducted on retired men and women with retired husbands. The influencing factors on the marital relationship of retired men are found to be couples’ shared activities, gender role attitudes, and subjective health status. The marital relationship of women with retired husbands is influenced by shared activities by couples, the division of domestic labor, and gender role attitudes. The factors affecting retired men’s depression are shared activities by couples, perceived health status, type of jobs before retirement, and age. Women’s depression is related to household income, shared activities by couples, husbands’ jobs before retirement, subjective health status, and division of household labor.