2. Stress Management
There is evidence of a link between social support and stress management. If you lose your job, for example, it helps emotionally and financially if a partner is there to support you.
3. Longer Life
A growing body of research indicates that married people live longer. One of the largest studies examines the effect of marriage on mortality during an eight-year period in the 1990s. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey, researchers found that people who had never been married were 58% more likely to die than married people.
“You know that question a lot of interviewers ask—How do you want to be remembered? I want to be remembered as—and I’m serious about this—I want to be remembered as one of the premier singers of our time. Period.
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