Ambivalent Relationships & Blood Pressure

Guest: Wendy Birmingham, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University  Marriage is good for your health. Studies show married people tend to live longer than unmarried people and are at lower risk for depression. Generally speaking, married people are happier people. BUT, the quality of your marriage matters. If you’re unhappily married your health might worse than if you were single.  So what about the in between stages? Marriages that are more-or-less ambivalent - not exactly blissful, but not awful either? And how exactly do marriage relationships affect one’s health?