The stress of marriage shortens your life by a year (if you're the wife)

[Shelor]

Wedding rings should come with a health warning - at least for women. New research reveals that while wedlock helps men to live longer, it shortens a woman's life by more than a year.

Marriage helps husbands to an extra 1.7 years, but it knocks 1.4 years off the average wife's lifespan, according to the study of more than 100,000 people across Europe.

The stress of leading dual roles as working women and homekeepers is thought to be one of the key elements that is killing off female spouses earlier than their single sisters.

Another factor revealed by the research team of Professor Stefan Felder of Magdeburg University, Germany, is a tendency for women to ape the behaviour of their spouse. For instance, single women were more likely to be non-smokers than single men, so that many non-smoking women would marry smokers. That could lead them to take up cigarettes or to being exposed to passive smoking. The researchers also suggested that the effect of regular sex could be detrimental for women's longevity, while benefiting men's, thanks to hormonal changes.


http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article347804.ece

[Lasher]

1. Sure, married men live longer

So do indoor cats.

[China_cat]

6. Especially if they're neutered.

[GaYellowDawg]

2. Hah...

The researchers also suggested that the effect of regular sex could be detrimental for women's longevity, while benefiting men's, thanks to hormonal changes

And here I thought they were talking about marriage. Of course, I speak vicariously. :-(

[ClintonTyree]

3. The old joke....Why do most men die before their wives do?

Because they want to! (rimshot)

[cornermouse]

4. Only one year?

I figured at least 10.

[Nay]

8. SNARF!! Me, too, cornermouse!

[cleveramerican]

5. why do women live longer than men?

because they don't have wives.( an old joke but a good one)

fear not, females out there, your still going to outlive 90% of the males of your age.

I don't care what the research says regular sex is always good for you.



I can tell you first hand I comes across ten times more little old ladies than little old men,

If I was a woman I'd keep that in the back of my mind when making financial plans.

[WePurrsevere]

7. It's a risk I gladly take then. Sometimes the gain is well worth the risk.

:) n/t