If you’re happily married, you can lower your blood pressure at hello! yoshi

If you’re happily married, you can lower your blood pressure

So according to a recent study, happily married couples have lower blood pressure than single people and unhappily married people.

Huh? How is this a scientifically sound study? How do they know that the married people are happy or unhappy? Are they asking them? If they are, is the couple being honest? seriously.

I’m not sure that I can buy this. While I can totally buy that a happy marriage does help with health to some degree, and I’m a firm believer in things like touch therapy (no, don’t let your mind go in the gutter people). I’m not sure if I can buy that just because the blood pressure was a little lower on some couples who said they were happily married, that is sound science.

There are plenty of single people who are quite healthy and they are happy too. Being single does not mean you are not happy. I wish people would get that through their heads. While there is a kind of loneliness sometimes to it, it does not mean you’re unhappy. By on means! Ugh. Some of these scientific studies just upset me.

So what do you think? In general I agree a happy marriage is healthier, but what about happy single people?

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4 Responses to “If you’re happily married, you can lower your blood pressure”

Insomnic Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

Yay! Lower blood pressure!

kate Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 12:58 am

hey, i just went to the doc last week and they commented on how low my blood pressure was. and i’m as single as they come! it’s all relative….

tray Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 10:18 am

hmm.. i guess i’ll never have low blood pressure.. j/k :-)

but honestly.. i understand the concept behind this. one thing that relaxes people is to have some support.. financially… emotionally… etc. and a marriage is just that. it gives the couple tax breaks.. shared health insurance and the security of having someone “on their side” when things get crappy. well.. in theory anyways.

now.. i don’t think this is a “married vs. not married” issue. i think it’s a “solid/healthy relationship vs. unhealthy/unstable/no relationship” issue. i have low blood pressure… and my state’s laws make it illegal for me to be married.. but i’m in a very solid/healthy relationship.

i think there’s also many other variables in the equation. job. housing. debt/financial situation. location. weather… heck.. even what you ate that day can play into account.

(wow. that’s like a whole blog entry for a comment. sorry ’bout that. :-) )

Yoshi Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm

@insomnic yay! :D Of course mine’s a bit high, but that’s genetic. hehe

@kate yeah there are so many factors. But you’re a pretty healthy person already :D

@tray You’re so absolutely right. The study is so skewed imho. there are way too many factors to be considered. I think personally they don’t consider a lot of things. And you’re absolutely right about the marriage vs healthy relationship. But yeah there is so much more I probably wanted to say, but I just didn’t think of it while typing out the post. I was just so angry at the “study”. and it’s ok, i make blog post comments too hehe.