Love hurts—Literally
Stuck in a loveless marriage? Beware. A new study shows that you may be at greater risk than your happily married and single friends of having a coronary. Researchers surveyed 9,011 British civil servants on the quality of their personal relationships, including their marriages. After more than a decade of follow-up, those with the worst ratings were 34 percent more likely to have had a heart attack or other serious heart condition, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine. A prior study found that couples who argued frequently were slow to heal from minor wounds. But before you sign those divorce papers, take heed: Married men, at least, tend to outlive bachelors. (Archives of Internal Medicine; wound healing study)

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