Earlier this week, the University of Michigan released a marriage study that says fighting with your spouse can be good for you. The report advocates not letting anger bottle up inside. It’s careful not to advocate physical violence.
How healthy can it be:
- “The anger-suppressing couples were nearly five times more likely to both be dead 17 years later, the study found.”
- “one death was recorded in half the couples who suppressed their anger, whereas only 26% of the other couples suffered from the death of a spouse.”
Before you take this too far, there’s a huge disclaimer:
It was carried out in a small, predominantly white and middle class town in Michigan and most of the women were “housewives” born before the sexual revolution.
Does that strike you as a diverse sample size? I didn’t think so. It makes me want to do a similar short-sighted study so that I can make USA Today.
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