KARACHI: A study has suggested that people with happy partners tend to have longer marriage and longer life. Notably, spouses’ life satisfaction was an even better predictor of participants’ mortality than participants’ own life satisfaction. Participants who had a happy partner at the beginning of the study were less likely to pass away over the next 8 years compared with participants who had less happy partners. The findings suggest that greater partner life satisfaction at the beginning of the study was associated with lower participant mortality risk. This research demonstrates that partner life satisfaction may have important consequences for health and longevity.

Source: Pakistan Today April 25, 2019 11:21 UTC