>I'm sorry about whatever experiences you've had to make you such a sour person,<
I'm not sour. I've just observed a lot, and seen people put up with some weird relationships. I knew two sisters who were married to men they hardly spoke to for decades, and after these men died, both sisters waxed nostalgic for how "good" their relationships were-AFTER one left her husband unmoving in a chair for a couple days with pneumonia (someone who stopped by called an ambulance) and the other initially told people the day the husband died was the happiest day of her life. Neither relationship was violent or verbally abusive.
I don't think either party is benefitted by such relationships.
Even more extremely, I know two coworkers (not relatives, and not close friends) who survived murder attempts by a fiance/husband.
There are worse states than being single, and one of them is being with someone who loathes you or might even try to kill you.
Of course that is true. Not everybody should be married and I don't think this writer or anybody else is making the claim that being in a bad marriage is better for your health than being single. For me, I grew up in a happy family, I'm in a happy marriage and I know as well as I'm sitting here typing that I am more healthy because of it than I would be if I were single. And the writer's point is that, for men, this is generally and statistically the case.
So what is there to argue about? I don't see anything.