Stay together for your health?

I viewed this Newsweek article with mixed emotions, considering my two divorces if anything improved my mental health...but? Supposedly the experts state, A new study shows that couples who split face health risks. I took a closer look...

Waite and her coauthor, Mary Elizabeth Hughes of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, used data from 8,652 people ages 51 to 61 who were part of the national Health and Retirement Study. "Pretty consistently," she says, "the worst off are the currently widowed, divorced, or separated." Getting remarried helps, although the remarried may do a little worse than the never married when it comes to certain chronic health conditions because they have already suffered the effects of marital disruption.

Including those who are widowed in my opinion skews the research since experiencing the death of a loved one can have a huge impact on your health, especially if you spent a good deal of time caring for them before they died.