Don't Argue With Your Spouse, If You Want A Healthy Heart
Robert Paul Reyes
March 06, 2006
We tend to think of the heart as a piece of machinery -- the engine that keeps us going. We are careful to eat heart-healthy foods that won't clog the blood vessels leading to this vital organ. We faithfully engage in cardio exercise, to keep our hearts in tip-top shape.
And indeed the heart is a crucial piece of machinery, if it stops beating you are in serious trouble. We should eat healthy, exercise and not smoke, if we want to maintain healthy hearts.
But we should also think of the heart in more metaphysical terms, we should view it as the seat of our emotions.
According to a USA Today article entitled "Arguing hurts the heart in more ways than one", "Couples who routinely trade nasty or controlling remarks during marital spats might be harming their hearts ? and not just emotionally."
When we see sit-com couples singling insults at each other we laugh, but an adversarial relationship is no joking matter, couples who argue all the time are at risk of developing heart diseases.
It turns out that you can die of a broken heart and not just in a figurative sense. All those insults, all those put-downs are like poison arrows that damage the heart.
You can run a marathon every day, eat enough fiber to choke a horse, but you could still develop heart disease if you argue with your honey-bunny all the time.
Disagreements are a normal part of any relationship, and they are impossible to avoid. However if we want to avoid heart disease, we need to disagree in an agreeable manner.
Instead of yelling at your hubby, "Get of that couch, you lazy bald-headed bastard and mow the freakin' lawn or you ain't getting none tonight." Try cooing, "Honey the neighbors are complaining that the grass is too high, if you take the machete and cut it, I will make tonight extra special for you."
To sum it up if you want a healthy heart: Eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke and don't argue with your loved one.
And indeed the heart is a crucial piece of machinery, if it stops beating you are in serious trouble. We should eat healthy, exercise and not smoke, if we want to maintain healthy hearts.
But we should also think of the heart in more metaphysical terms, we should view it as the seat of our emotions.
According to a USA Today article entitled "Arguing hurts the heart in more ways than one", "Couples who routinely trade nasty or controlling remarks during marital spats might be harming their hearts ? and not just emotionally."
When we see sit-com couples singling insults at each other we laugh, but an adversarial relationship is no joking matter, couples who argue all the time are at risk of developing heart diseases.
It turns out that you can die of a broken heart and not just in a figurative sense. All those insults, all those put-downs are like poison arrows that damage the heart.
You can run a marathon every day, eat enough fiber to choke a horse, but you could still develop heart disease if you argue with your honey-bunny all the time.
Disagreements are a normal part of any relationship, and they are impossible to avoid. However if we want to avoid heart disease, we need to disagree in an agreeable manner.
Instead of yelling at your hubby, "Get of that couch, you lazy bald-headed bastard and mow the freakin' lawn or you ain't getting none tonight." Try cooing, "Honey the neighbors are complaining that the grass is too high, if you take the machete and cut it, I will make tonight extra special for you."
To sum it up if you want a healthy heart: Eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke and don't argue with your loved one.
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