According to the University of Minnesota Health Center, the effects of relationships on well-being vary depending on the quality of the relationship. Being in a positive, happy, supportive relationship improves your well-being, while being in an unhappy or abusive relationship can be very stressful. Relationship conflicts can interfere with physical and mental health.
The actual statistics correlating marriage and life expectancy are complicated. Married men who stay married their entire lives appear to live longer than...
According to the University of Minnesota Health Center, the effects of relationships on well-being vary depending on the quality of the relationship. Being in a positive, happy, supportive relationship improves your well-being, while being in an unhappy or abusive relationship can be very stressful. Relationship conflicts can interfere with physical and mental health.
The actual statistics correlating marriage and life expectancy are complicated. Married men who stay married their entire lives appear to live longer than single men. On the other hand, there is a problem with establishing causation, as likelihood of marriage, and especially of stable marriage, strongly correlates with income, and higher incomes are also associated with longer life expectancy. Also, given the percentages of marriages that end in divorce, getting married is no guarantee of staying married.
The most common correlations are that happy intimate relationships may be associated with positive outcomes, but these effects may be temporary and vary with the quality of the relationship.
Perhaps all we can really conclude firmly is that abusive relationships are harmful to well-being, and that otherwise, whether relationships make a positive or negative contribution to your life depends on the quality of the relationship. People who are married, single, and in other forms of relationships can all be either happy or unhappy.
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