Comments on: Is Marriage Good for your Health?

By: Celebrate National Marriage Week: Be a Marriage Advocate –Part II « Life Gems

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:09:50 +0000

[...] drunk-driving campaigns, fighting for civil rights and for the environment. She says with all the well-documented evidence for marriage, we should all advocate for healthy marriages. “When it’s not working, people [...]

By: Celebrate National Marriage Week: Be a Marriage Advocate –Part I « Life Gems

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:42:21 +0000

[...] is a public good that is beneficial to both adults and children. Research has shown married adults have more wealth, greater happiness and psychological wellbeing, lower rates of chemical [...]

By: Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:10:26 +0000

Is marriage good for your health? I say, YES! I see health as your physical, spiritual, and mental well-being. There are a few things you need for a marriage: love, commitment, and selflessness. It seems that all of the divorces and unhappy marriages I have witnessed are missing one, all, or a combination of these ingredients. The component of marriage that is most important is the effort. Effort is motivated by the ingredients. It all comes down to “you get out of it, what you put in to it”. It is just like anything else we have. If you buy a house and you don’t maintain that house by painting it, fixing it, or cherishing it, it will “fall apart,” not be “valuable” and it will not feel like a “home”. If you maintain the house with love, sweat, and tears you will have a”sturdy”, “valuable” HOME. You get out of something what you put in it. I have received so many gifts from my marriage. Here’s a few that come to mind:Love, children, loyalty, self-esteem, compromise, independence, dependence, maturity, spiritual growth, team-work, support, encouragement, happiness, thankfullness and grace. I don’t think I would have received so many gifts without marriage. I think sometimes we don’t always want to know ourselves for who we really are. With that said, to have someone with you on the journey who knows you better than you know yourself or that can give you a little nudge when you need along with all the gifts you give and receive is what makes us us “HEALTHY”!

By: Anne Dunlavy

Anne Dunlavy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:17:49 +0000

When you have found the person in life that inspires you, makes you stronger/better, makes you smile/laugh, gives you hope, marriage is the best outcome. You make a committment to each other based on all those amazing things you see in each other and you know that the struggles and dark issues will show themselves. However it is that commitment that gives you the confidence to know you will prevail as a couple and as an invidual. Knowing that someone else is with you and will help you makes it all easier to face and makes the celebrations even better! I wouldn’t trade marriage for any of the thing!

By: D Grishaber

D Grishaber — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:03:23 +0000

I think marriage is good because it teaches you to work like a team. You need to consider others peoples habits, ideas and ways of doing thing differently. It prepares you to be able to work with other personalities and accept their differences. Marriage is a ongoing thing that has to be worked on, tweaked each and every day.

When I look at my sister, who is a single Mom, and listen to hear comments of how irritated she gets when others stay at her house and use her things I just laugh.

She doesn’t get what it’s like to share a bed, sink, toothpaste etc. In addition, I have to consider my mates interests, ideas and concerns when making plans. That’s okay because it just makes us better at socialization skills.

I know that I will be extra thankful to be married it’s just the two of us at home without children and I have someone to share my time, concerns and hobbies with.

By: Jill Metz

Jill Metz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:40:46 +0000

Depends on who you’re married to!!
Is it all about you or are you a team, sharing the responsibilities of life.
If it’s not equal, I think that can be very hard to overcome.