Posted on March 20, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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?
