A Bad Marriage is More Stressful Than a Bad Job
While both these issues are serious and can impact both your psychological and physical health, the distress caused by a bad marriage is ultimately worse. A job is important in terms of our social status and finances; marriage affects these areas and our overall sense of emotional security.
Emotional and Physical Harm
A bad job can create stress in other areas of your life, but a bad marriage directly disrupts your home life, causing discord in the place that should ideally be a place to regroup and seek support after a long day. A bad marriage shows serious problems in one of the relationships you should be able to rely on the most. A bad marriage can also be harmful to any children involved, as they witness the stress experienced by their parents and are surrounded by negativity, thus challenging their sense of home as a safe place.
As Science Daily explains, a bad marriage can in fact harm your work life (as well as your health). “Spouses in a poor marriage are more likely to be stressed during the workday”, which while emotionally challenging, could also result in higher chances of suffering from heart disease or stroke. While we often talk about the issues with bringing our work home with us, the study discussed by Science Daily shows that a strained domestic life can negatively influence “biological function over the working day and evening”. Higher levels of marital discord correlated with both increased stress and “elevated diastolic and systolic blood pressure”. Furthermore, while a recent study suggests that work stress can be as bad for us as secondhand smoke (and certainly should not be ignored), the Washington Post reports that a bad marriage “can literally break your heart” due to the harm marital stress can do to cardiovascular health. And negative marital qualities are more harmful than positive qualities are helpful.
In summary, staying in a bad marriage could disrupt you work life, impair your parenting abilities, damage your psychological well being, and make your health suffer.
Getting Help with Getting Out
If you find that you are in an irreparable marriage, leaving the relationship could be the best thing for both you and your spouse. We can assist you with the divorce process and help minimize the stress of this life change.
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