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Marital conflict and life expectancy

Marital conflict and life expectancy

Posted on 05. Feb, 2008 by .

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How you argue with your spouse can impact on your life expectancy, according to research conducted at the University of Michigan. During conflict, couples were found to either outwardly express anger, or bottle it up. For some couples, just one spouse would either express or suppress their feelings. Those people who held their feelings in [...]

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Keeping quiet during an argument is a health risk

Keeping quiet during an argument is a health risk

Posted on 09. Oct, 2007 by .

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When in  with a spouse, women who kept quiet rather than expressing themselves, have been shown to be at greater risk of death. In fact they were four times more likely to die compared to those women who spoke out. Such women also had a greater incidence of  and irritable bowel syndrome. The participants were [...]

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