Stress and Complicacy Among Relationships: A Major Health Concern

On Valentine's Day, the sight of couples holding hands and hugging each-other might unleash a wave of jealousy in those who are single. However, there might not be much to be jealous about. Also, marital quality clearly colors one’s overall sense of well-being, and marital distress elevates health risks, says a leading clinical psychology journal. However, the simple presence of a spouse is not necessarily protective; a troubled marriage is itself a prime source of stress, and simultaneously limits the partner's ability to seek support in other relationships. The worst distance between two persons in a relationship misunderstanding. Indeed, the relationship between life satisfaction and marital quality is stronger than life satisfaction’s ties to either one's job or one’s health.Marital distress, over time, increases the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attack and stroke. Women who reported moderate to severe marital strain were 3 times more likely to need heart surgery, suffer heart attacks or die of heart disease. Newly wed couples involved in a 30-minute heated discussion of marital problems tended to have relatively poorer immunological responses. Marital distress was associated with worse recovery trajectory for breast cancer survivors. People who divorced and never re-married—were at substantially elevated risk for early death, evidencing a 66% greater chance of morbidity. In his film "Annie Hall," Woody Allen charged that "a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies." For a happy married life, both partners have to learn to lose the "it's my way or the highway" attitude and to learn compromise and sacrifice, as wise men said so