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Along with bringing the latest news and trends about alternative health, Bob will help you get the most of your Internet health research. Bob is the Living Well Columnist for the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. He covers health and quality of life for the Hearst-owned newspaper and writes regularly for national magazines. He is a former syndicated health columnist for the Chicago Tribune twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and author of six books, including “The Good Mood Diet” and “Your Prostate Cancer Survivors’ Guide.” His articles have appeared in Life, Esquire, Parade, Self, Outside and Shape among national magazines. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two 11-year-old kids. |
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| Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| More Stress and the Single Life |
Picking up from Tuesday’s post, let’s take a few more looks at Stress and the Single Life. As a psychology professor at Loyola University in Chicago, Maryse Richards has intensely studied the family dynamic. What she has found time and again is that married women who work are under considerably more stress than married men who work.
OK, you can stop nodding your heads now or saying, “well, duh, who is this blogger guy, anyway?” While you might find women who anecdotally say they feel more stress than their husbands or male live-in partners, whether the couple has kids or not, Richards found a distinct pattern throughout a number of studies. Here’s the basic finding: When men come home from a day’s work, home seems to them a place of relaxation and decompressing. When a woman arrives at the house or apartment, she’s typically more stressed during the evening and even weekend hours focused on such household matters as what’s for dinner, how to keep the place clean, who needs to be where when.
Remember this holds for whether those two-job couples have kids or not, and it doesn’t matter what age the kids might be. Even social calendars can be stressful, and we all know women handle those details, sometimes because they like that control and other times because Mr. Hubby Man over there isn’t about to go anywhere by choice except to the video store on Friday nights.
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