Married people live longer than never married or divorce adults. That’s a fact from decades of health research.
This finding has always been puzzling to those people among us who are steadfastly single—along with the happily divorced and unhappily married. The single life offers would-be health perks to all three demographic groups, such as doing what you want with your free time, deciding how clean (or not so clean) your home needs to be and a diminished amount of conflict in intimate relationships.
Of course, there are arguments in favor of marriage, such as more access to health care. Female partners are highly persuasive about getting husbands and significant others to the doctor/chiropractor/nutritionist/massage therapist/etc. Companionship reduces depression, alcohol abuse or both. There are more pluses, such as the finding that married individuals tend to have lower blood pressure than singles and the widowed.
But that’s digressing.
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