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7 Ways Being Single Affects Your Health

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Romantic relationships can be, without a doubt, the best type relationships a person can experience; as these provide happiness, comfort, and the overall feeling of unconditional love. Consequently, the gifts relationships have to offer are almost irresistible. While a romantic relationship can be a blessing, all beautiful roses, have thorns. Ordinarily, I am not willing to make the sacrifices need to keep a relationship, that might not work out; some of which include health risk, loss of friends and a broken heart. As mentioned before, relationships require sacrifices to work, one of which is the ability to maintain close friendships. As seen in the article 7 Ways Being Single Affects Your Health by Amanda MacMillan, “... A 2006 University of Massachusetts at Amherst study found that single people were better at maintaining relationships with friends, neighbors and extended family than those who had tied the knot - both with and without kids”. I would be partial to keeping my already strong relationships, than put effort into …show more content…

From the same article as mentioned before, “A 2013 study in the journal Health Psychology shows that happily married couples tend to gain weight…”. Additionally, an article written by cardiologist Dr. Cynthia Thaik, informed me of a condition called “a broken heart syndrome”. Causes by an onset emotional distress, this condition entails symptoms related to a heart attack, such as angina, shortness of breath, and temporary heart failure. Coincidentally, this condition, as stated in the article, “..Causes rapid and severe muscle weakness.” Notwithstanding the happiness a romantic relationships brings, if a romantic relationships causes a person to gain weight and possible heart failure then I do not want one! Ordinarily, my well-being is more important to me than having someone to lay next to every

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