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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Marriage's 'Dark Side': Spouses Catch Each Other's Bad Behavior

Couples in long-term committed relationships can wreck each other's health

As any single person with married friends can testify, their constant patter about how great marriage is for just about everything (Your heart! Your mood! Your life expectancy !) can be a little annoying. Research supports those pitying glances they shoot in your direction when you defend your singleness; long-term committed relationships like marriage really are good for your health. But, still.

That's all the more reason to embrace University of Cincinnati sociologist Corinne Reczek, who believes that research “has failed to look at the dark side” of coupledom.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ew. Gross.

Anonymous said...

Okay, just the most brief of viewing of that entire article shows is rampant with errors and chock full of preconceived notions.
Junk Science!

Tom said...

My wife and I pick our noses together!