Healthy hearts
By: Bella
Published: January 10, 2008
Although I didn’t make any hard and fast resolutions
this year, I do have a concept sort of looming in the back
of my mind that I want to make good on: I want my relationships
to be healthier.
And this
article made me happy that there’s actually a scientific
correlation between women in happy marriages and their stress
levels.
Now granted, this study is actually about married couples,
but certainly the same principles apply to committed relationships
or maybe even casually dating!
For me, healthier dating means not standing for any crap
anymore. I’m willing to be flexible, compromise, and
even listen to someone else’s side of the story. But
I’m not going to wait around for a man who can’t
make up his mind. I simply have too much life to live!
Last week we talked about dating resolutions, but what would
healthier dating mean for you? Whether you’re just dating
or in a full-fledged relationship, what could you do to improve
your dating emotional health, thus improving your physical
health?
Do you communicate well with people you’re seeing? Are
you too clingy? Too standoffish? Do you take enough chances,
or are you too risky in love? Do you demand too much from
people or too little? Are you too choosy about who you date?
Not choosy enough?
What’s ultimately going to make you healthier when it
comes to dating? It it something you can accomplish immediately
or something that’s going to take time to develop?
Gentlemen, the study shows that although the difference between
an unhappy marriage and a happy marriage doesn’t affect
men’s stress levels as much, married men do tend to live
longer. Based on your personal experience, what have you done
or experienced in a relationship that made you feel healthy?
Have you ever had a stress-free relationship, in which a woman
made things very easy for you?
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