A Recent Study Highlighted these Benefits and the Policy Store and Unicare Health and Life Insurance Want You to Know the Results a Happy Marriage Can Bring.

It is a fact that Happy and Highly Satisfying Marriages show a significant health advantage when compared with unhappy marriages, which includes lower levels of biological and lifestyle cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, body mass index, and lower levels of psychosocial cardiovascular risk factors such as depression, anxiety, and anger.

(PRWEB) December 23, 2004 -- Researchers Wendy Troxel and psychologist Karen Matthews, at the University of Pittsburgh found that a happy marriage might help protect women from strokes and heart attacks. Marriage can also add health benefits by providing social support and making health-promoting behaviors easier to accomplish.

National Center for Health Statistics study now shows that 85% of Americans still get married despite the odds that show the current divorce rate at 50% . NCHS finds that Americans value a happy marriage and family above all else. If given the proper time, effort, and commitment, your marriage can be a relationship that will grow with you and remain a part of your life for decades.

According to the National Mental Health Association, there are many reasons that we get married. Ideally, our need for happiness and personal satisfaction can be met through this bonding relationship, which satisfies both emotional and physical needs. You must be able to provide each other with companionship, affection, and conversation. You have to learn about areas of conflict in your marriage and ways to resolve them. Every day living and things like money matters, health, automobile, children, and childrens health are things that affect our relationships and we have to be aware that they can make or break the connection to each other.

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