# 10} You live longer. Yep, seriously. Ok, it's not totally understood why, but married people tend to live longer on average. Particularly men, who might live on average an extra seven years. Ladies, you might add an extra 3 years. Could it be the long lost fountain of youth?
#9} You're happier. The roller coaster of dating is pretty stressful at times. Marriage gives a calmer, more stable love, rather than the stressful infatuation that often accompanies dating.
#8} You're less likely to suffer from depression and mental health problems. It's true. There's some strong links to the increased love and joy in married life and the decrease of mental health issues.
#7} You'll likely have lower stress levels. Super high stress can increase blood pressure. Some studies have found that those who are happily married have lower levels of stress which leads to better blood pressure.
#6} Does suffering fewer illnesses and fewer doctor visits sound good to you? Happily married people have higher levels of antibodies in their blood. The loving relationship created in marriage seems to boost the immune system. Cool, huh?!?
#5} Sex. Ok, you knew this had to be in here somewhere. Marital sex helps bond a couple together and build trust. Sex reduces stress, increases self esteem, and floods the body with oxytocin. The two become one flesh, literally. What could be more beautiful and holy!
#4} Marriage decreases the likelihood of domestic violence. Yes, there are always exceptions, but domestic violence is about 10% higher in cohabitating couples vs married couples. Married men tend to have lower levels of testosterone which tends to reduce risky, aggressive behavior as well as infidelity.
#3) The Church teaches that marriage "helps to overcome self absorption, egoism, pursuit of one's own pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to mutual aid and to self giving" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1609) So, in marriage, good is ordered not only toward the children of the marriage, society, but to the married persons themselves.
#2} Marriage models the Trinity. Yes! "Like the Persons of the Trinity, marriage is a communion of love between co-equal persons, beginning with that between husband and wife and then extending to all members of the family...Just as the Trinity of persons is a life-giving communion of live both in relationship to one another and to the whole of creation, so a married couple shares in this life-giving communion of love by together procreating children in the conjugal act of love" pgs 36-37 USCCB’s pastoral letter entitled, “Marriage – Love and Life in the Divine Plan” What could be more beautiful. Marriage in particularly encourages better relationships between parents and children. Especially between fathers and their children.
#1} It just is. No matter how loving or how desperate the marriage. God loves you and your spouse equally. No matter what, and thank goodness for that. In marriage, we have a wonderful purpose in life. To participate in saint making and heaven going. By our self sacrificial love, we become the face of Christ to our spouse and to our children. Children being on of the best parts of marriage. Who couldn't love those little monkeys.
So to leave you with profound funny......
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Some married men continue to "look around", as if they are going to find something better. Everyone has issues and shortcomings. Look; you are not going to find someone better. The odds of divorcing your second wife increase exponentially, and so on. This is your wife. You won't find anyone else. These are your children. This is your family. You won't / can't find a better pursuit in this life than to build the foundation that will make your family thrive.
ReplyDeleteI agree whole heartedly.
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