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EVERY DAY IS
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B Y ANGELI CA GAVALDON
e are celebrating Valentine’s Day this month, the month of love and friendship. Besides the
romantic dinners and being in love there are many health benefits to nurturing a friendship, love
and marriage. Cultivating relationships extends your lifetime and helps your immune system.
Here are a few other reasons why healthy relationships will make you live a long happy life:
Married people live longer Friendships Have a healthy Valentine’s day
Studies have shown that married people
tend to live longer. When you are in
a good healthy relationship, having a
significant other that cares for you, you
are more likely to follow good habits.
For example, married people drink and
smoke less. It makes sense: family
dinners at home are more common than
going out and drinking. Cultivating friendships helps us in life,
getting through tough moments, divorce
and death. In general, friends are always
there by our side to lift us up during
hardships. Mentally, it is very good for us
to know we don’t have to walk through
this life alone. Friendships are good for our
immune system and when you spend time
with friends, your stress level decreases.
If we have positive friends, being around
inspiring energy is contagious, laughing is
good for us and if we are lucky enough to
have good influences in our lives, they will
help us develop good healthy habits. A healthy activity I like to do, and you
can do with your significant other, is
to take a romantic walk on the beach.
Better if it is after dinner to digest food
better before bedtime and use this
time to disconnect from devices and
connect with one another. Try to make
it a point to encourage one another and
express what you are grateful for in each
other. Sometimes after a long day it is
important to remember the beauty of the
love you have around you and feed each
other gratefulness.
Happy marriages always support each
other, lift each other up and are stronger
emotionally. When you have a partner for
life you feel you can accomplish anything
together. If you are down, your partner
can lift you up, encourage you and staying
positive is always good for mental health.
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Cheers to love and friendship!