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You know
what’s really cool about you humans? No matter how wacky the world gets, you
still somehow find the time to form these wonderful connections with one another.
Sometimes it’s with family, other times with friends, but every so often people
find themselves having a super special connection with someone else, leading to
a romantic relationship! These types of relationships tend to be monogamous, at
least in one form or another. Monogamy is all about only pairing up with one
other person, and it’s mainly broken-down into two forms. You can have social
monogamy, which pretty much means you live together but might still have
romantic flings, or sexual monogamy, where you only mate with your partner.
Either way, monogamy is actually pretty rare among mammals.
That’s
because out of all the species of mammals out there, only about 3 percent of
them are known to practice some sort of monogamy. My favorites are wolves and
beavers.
Aww, they’re just so darn cute together! Couple of the year in my opinion! Now,
beyond just being downright adorable, there are actually quite a few potential benefits
of being in a long-term, monogamous type of relationship for you humans!
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Should You Really Be In a Relationship OR Single Forever?
For one,
people in healthy relationships — whether it’s long term or not — typically have
lower rates of harmful stress, which can contribute to a whole bunch of problems.
Beyond that, it’s generally thought that longer-term relationships are good for
your mental health by helping you to combat depression— assuming it’s a
healthy, non-toxic pairing of course. A recent study that just came out last
year has added a bit of fuel to these claims. After looking at the interviews
of 3,617 US adults between the ages of 24 to 89, researchers found that
coupled-up people had relatively fewer symptoms of depression, but only income
economic scenarios. Married people with a total household income of less than
$60,000 per year had fewer symptoms of depression than unmarried people with
comparable earnings.
Should You Really Be In a Relationship OR Single Forever?
These
effects seemed to be related to an increased sense of financial security and
self-efficacy in the married folk. That said, couples with higher incomes didn’t
seem to get the same mental benefits. Long term relationships may also be
better for your physical health too! More specifically, it could be good for
your heart. No, I’m not talking about in the lovely dove way — marriage might
actually help you stay alive in the event of a heart attack. A study done a
couple of years ago on over 25,000 people who had had a diagnosed heart attack
found that those who were married were around 14% more likely to survive than
single
people.
On average,
the people that had gotten hitched also spent about two less days in hospital.
Adding all this up, it surely seems like there are a bunch of real benefits to
having a lifelong partner!
But hey, don’t fret if you’re not in a romantic relationship right now, or even
if you never want to be in one. While a lot of this was talking about the
romantic kind of relationships, you can still have strong, positive
relationships with other people too. Friends, family… really anyone that you
care about and that cares about you back! So, where do you land on all of this?
Do you think two people should be together forever?
Should You Really Be In a Relationship OR Single Forever?
Each person
had experienced an unwanted romantic breakup within the 6 months prior to the study,
and while hooked up to and firm, were made to look at a photo of their ex to
try and gauge the pain that it put them through. As always, forget to keep on
thinking.
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