07/01/2019
EARLY DEATH OF MARRIED MEN! WHY?
Everyone knows that stress is bad for your health, but a new study has found that a stressful marriage full of conflict and worry is more than just bad, it actually increases the risk of premature death in men.
Participants were surveyed about stressful people and scenarios in their lives. Questions included, "In your everyday life, do you experience that any of the following people [partner, children, other family, friends, and neighbors] demand too much of you or seriously worry you?" and "In your everyday life, do you experience conflicts with any of the following people?"
"Those [men] who ‘always’ or ‘often’ experienced worries and demands from partner had a higher mortality risk than those who 'seldom' had this experience ... whereas worries and demands from other family, friends and neighbors were not [associated with higher mortality]."
Kerner says it's "absolutely a toss of the coin as to who’s going to have the lower libido" in a heteros*xual relationship. "I meet many, many men with low desire, whether they are bored in their relationships or not attracted to their partners or stressed out at work or insecure about their position in the world." Research is increasingly showing that men who have low desire in their relationships don't necessarily have low desire outside of the context of their relationship, he says. "They still have desire that leads to ma********on or that may lead to s*x with other people, but many men actually have low desire for their partners," he says.
