How can my romantic relationship affect my health?

Your romantic relationship can affect your health in that a bad relationship can be extremely stressful and impact you negatively - and vice versa! Psychologist Brenda Wade, PhD, explains how your love life can influence your health.

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The largest number of claims to health policies are because of people going through a divorce,

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and those people falling ill as a result. That's because it is such a stressful thing.

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I spent the last 20 years focusing on helping people to create healthy relationships.

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And one of the reasons is that most people aren't aware. We have a huge body of research that

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shows a bad relationship affects your health. Did you know that the largest number of claims

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to health policies are because of people going through a divorce, and those people falling ill as a result.

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That's because it is such a stressful thing to go through if you have a bad relationship.

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Now the good news is we can learn better and do better in relationships. But be aware that getting that relationship healed

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can actually heal your body, too. Just like a bad relationship leads to bad health, a good love relationship leads to good health.

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More endorphins, you feel happier. Your immune system goes through the roof. And, by the way, people who are in love

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are also more successful because you've got that I'm full on, "I can crush the universe" energy