Love Stinks But UnMarriage Kills

"I'm all right I feel real light
I don't live a life that's uptight"
How Do You Feel? - 311

We're getting married on the Labor day and while we're wishing for an "rest of our lives" ending it's comforting or disturbing depending on your point of view to know that it's healthier if its to the end. Recent research from the Journal of Health and Social Behavior has found that government policies: "...encouraging marriage in order to promote health may be misguided. In fact, getting married increases one’s risk for eventual marital dissolution, and marital dissolution seems to be worse for self-rated health now than at any point in the past three decades." The study finds that over years it doesn't matter if you're living single and never married or if you never divorce you'll live a healthy life. The trouble is only if you interrupt whatever choice you make. This might also explain why our never married uncle has outlived all his married brothers and sister-in-laws.