8 ways a good Relationship Improves a Man (550 hits)
If you’re a man who thinks settling down will only hold you back, you’ve got a lot to learn…
We’ve all heard the jokes about how wives and girlfriends can curb a man’s lifestyle, but deep down, we all know the “take my wife… please!” joke isn’t revealing the whole picture. In fact, a good relationship makes life better for a man. The right partnership can smooth out life’s rough edges and calm you down while building you up.
“I think both genders have the same lessons to learn,” says Jeremy Nicholson, Ph.D., a social psychologist and dating consultant who blogs for Psychology Today. “Relationships provide challenges and opportunities for growth that can certainly improve any partner. It is up to each individual to rise to that opportunity.” With that in mind, here are eight ways a good relationship can improve a man’s life:
It helps you live longer According to Drs. Elizabeth and Charles Schmitz, “America’s #1 Love and Marriage Experts” and the coauthors of Building a Love that Lasts, if your relationship leads to marriage, you could live a lot longer. “One study concluded that men who are married live an average of 10 years longer than unmarried men,” report the authors, “and married women live an average of four years longer than unmarried women.”
It makes you socialize more Men tend to be more solitary than ....
