Posted on 10/08/2007 1:42:57 PM PDT by yorkie
A lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.
What it likely boils down to is stress — a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships, the scientists said.
In a study of 9,011 British civil servants, most of them married, those with the worst close relationships were 34 percent more likely to have heart attacks or other heart trouble during 12 years of follow-up than those with good relationships. That included partners, close relatives and friends.
The study, in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine, follows previous research that has linked health problems with being single and having few close relationships. In the new study, researchers focused more on the quality of marriage and other important relationships.
"What we add here is that, 'OK, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married.' The quality of the relationship matters," said lead author Roberto De Vogli, a researcher with University College in London.
De Vogli said his research team is doing tests to see if study participants with bad relationships have any biological evidence of stress that could contribute to heart disease. That includes inflammation and elevated levels of stress hormones.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I wonder which is generally worse heathwise - a bad marriage or none.
Amazing. A disease for everything now. Will Hillary Care cure that too? Never before have so many been at risk for so little.
I can attest first hand how a bad marriage can affect your health. Now that I am out of that hell and in a stable, supportive, healthy relationship, my health has improved considerably as has my general outlook on life.
As observed by a co-worker about 2 weeks after I moved out and filed for divorce: “Wow, you’ve really changed! Used to be that you’d mope around all the time looking miserable...you reminded me of Eeyore, only more down... now, you’re like Tigger!”
(It was true!)
A bad marriage, of course. The ill effects of not being married are actually the result of an immature neediness - which is all too common in today's society. The meditator with a balanced heart chakta can sit alone in a room for a hundred years in a state of perfect bliss.
Marriage can be a blessing over and above the state of internal bliss, but one has to achieve that state first.
Weezie! Im comin to join ya
“chakta” = “chakra”...I’m making typos all over the place today. ;)
darn you beat me to the Captain Obvious signal.
trust me: a bad marriage. you have to be in one to long for the days when you thought you had problems.
Is a nasty divorce a good alternative?
LOL!
B T T T
So can I sue my ex-wife?
Do you know why divorce is so expensive?
Because its worth it! Even a nasty one. A nasty divorce, which I have now, is still better than a nasty marriage. Atleast you are away from the source of your misery most of the time.
So now that you’ve experienced both, any advice on avoiding the witch, and finding the good?
Bad marriage - no doubt.
As I always say, “Which is worse - being alone or wishing you were?”
“So now that you’ve experienced both, any advice on avoiding the witch, and finding the good?”
I’ll chime in here: Take a long, long time to decide, and watch very carefully how she treats other people that can’t benefit her in ANY way.
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