Single men have mortality rates that are 250% higher than married men.
Having a spouse can decrease your risk for dying from cancer as much as knocking ten years off your life.
Single people spend longer in the hospital, and have a greater risk of dying after surgery
Based on life expectancies, nine of ten married men and women alive at age 48 are alive at 65, while only six of ten single men and eight of ten single women make it to 65.
Married men may have better immune systems as well, either from support or from nagging to monitor blood pressure, cholesterol, weight, etc… and may be at less risk to catch colds
Married men are more successful in work as well, getting promoted more often and receiving higher performance appraisals. They also miss work or arrive late less often.
Married men are half as likely to commit suicide as single men, and one third as likely as divorced men. Widowed men under 45 are nine times more likely to commit suicide as married men.
Single men drink twice as much as married men, and one out of four say their drinking causes problems. Only one of seven married men says the same. One out of six single men abstains from alcohol, but one in four married men do.
About 40% of married people have sex twice a week, compared to 20-25% of single and cohabitating men and women.
Over 40% of married women said their sex life was emotionally and physically satisfying, compared to about 30% of single women.
For men, it's 50% of married men are physically and emotionally contents versus 38% of cohabitating men.
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