Study challenges the common assertion that "Married Men are healthier"

RolleTheStoneAlone · 2017-05-26T01:40:22+00:00

Good portion of the article.

Dr. Kalmijn also examined the implications of divorce and found that people who divorced became significantly less satisfied with their lives. In fact, the negative implications of divorce for life satisfaction were more than three times greater than the positive implications of marrying.

EMPIRE_OF_THE_CLOUDS · 2017-05-26T06:04:01+00:00

I've always believed, saying married men live longer is like saying people died at 30 in the Middle Ages, when really it was infant mortality pulling down the average lifespan. Lots of people lived into their seventies back then.

IMHO the reason mortality is lower among married men, if true at all, is because women use more routine medical care than men do. So if married men's wives nag them into getting annual cancer screenings, a few of them will live thirty years longer.

Meanwhile the median, not average, health status of married men is much worse. Mostly because of obesity-related conditions like hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. Ask any guy who was married for many years. After the first year or two you get bored with sex, then elaborate dinners become the highlight of your day. Sex (and masturbation) less, eat more. Also a man's testosterone declines sharply spending time with his children, which of course kills libido, energy, muscle tone, etc.

Also the author. Can you imagine the Times letting a male write an article like this? "Misogynist!"

ikhwan_arif · 2017-05-26T02:36:53+00:00

Free of the myth that marriage is a magical potion, we can all pursue the life paths that suit us best. Marriage is still there for those who want it. But now people who prefer to live single can come out of the shadows. The possibilities for meaning and fulfillment in a single life have gone largely unrecognized. It is time for that to change.

I want to highlight the above paragraph that the writer more than likely is referring and targeting single life for women, not men. She's probably (my conjecture but it is the NYTimes) trying to rationalize ways of not committing to a monogamous relationship.

This is good and I don't have a problem with it; but it would be naive of us to think that she is considerate enough to include men in her opinions. More than likely there'll be an article coming up, telling better men to marry "because if you love her, it's the right thing to do."

And more likely, she's placating working women, consoling them of their failure to sustain a healthy long term relationship, and cajoling them to be corporate mules. Lean In as they say.

But mental gymnastics won't fill the boredom that women will inevitable feel when they tire of the rat race. Women don't want to Lean In, they want to Lie Down and let their spouses pay for it.

mentalidade_logica · 2017-05-26T01:47:16+00:00

Holy Macro! This should be the scientific 'bible' for MGTOW.

PatBuchanan2012 · 2017-05-26T07:06:49+00:00

I'm hesitant to accept this, just because NYT are the same cucks that published that article promoting Female Cheating.

Paladin2903 · 2017-05-26T03:54:38+00:00

Sums it up perfectly.....

https://youtu.be/cPk72ccNRb0

verynormalsimple · 2017-05-26T13:33:21+00:00

Well thanks Dr. Matthijs Kalmijn for having the balls to challenge gynocentrism.

Now to find a way to read the pdf without a suscrption...

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squidracer · 2017-05-26T01:50:46+00:00

This should be stickied.

loofy_goofy · 2017-05-26T07:21:35+00:00

I think (need to check) these ideas 'married are healthier' were introduced through selection bias - not so long time ago, being not-married meant that something really wrong with you.

Now, everything is upside down.

Cicuta · 2017-05-26T13:06:05+00:00

Married men don't live longer... it just seems that way...when you're being tortured...

eltonl · 2017-05-27T00:06:02+00:00

Well challenged. We need this kind of study, because it's the truth for most people.

Title	Study challenges the common assertion that "Married Men are healthier"
Author	RolleTheStoneAlone
Upvotes	37
Comments	15
Date	May 26, 2017 1:38 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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