But wait! Should we even be jumping in at all? A brief addendum to yesterday's post.

     Coincidentally, there was an interesting article in the NYT today, “Is Marriage Good for your Health?”
     Seems like I’m not the only one exhausting the topic of marriage and divorce! Between all of these ongoing studies, to the phenomonon of “Eat Pray Love” (can’t wait to blog about that when the movie comes out), it’s rampant. Not that this is a newsflash, yet for some reason it still surprises me. Has it always been like that?  I wonder whether the way in which celebrity divorces have always been portrayed in the media has given divorce a kind of sanitized “doesnt seem like such a big deal” patina.
     Anyway, check out this interesting article. It gives a whole other rationale for not jumping. As in, not jumping into a bad marriage in the first place.
     “But while it’s clear that marriage is profoundly connected to health and well-being, new research is increasingly presenting a more nuanced view of the so-called marriage advantage. Several new studies, for instance, show that the marriage advantage doesn’t extend to those in troubled relationships, which can leave a person far less healthy than if he or she had never married at all. One recent study suggests that a stressful marriage can be as bad for the heart as a regular smoking habit. And despite years of research suggesting that single people have poorer health than those who marry, a major study released last year concluded that single people who have never married have better health than those who married and then divorced.”
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18marriage-t.html?src=me&ref=homepage