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Can Marriage Be Good for the Nerves? Good husbands don’t get on their wives' nerves. They calm them, a study published in Psychological Science shows 
Women under stress who held their husband’s hands showed immediate signs of relief, according to a University of Virginia study. When researchers exposed 16 women to the threat of a mild electric shock, women who held their husband’s hand, rather than a stranger’s hand and no hand at all, registered a sense of immediate relief, according to magnetic resonance imaging scans. “Moreover,” according to the study, “spouse handholding effect varied as a function of marital quality, with women in the very highest quality marriages benefiting from a very powerful decrease in threat-related brain activity, including a strong decrease in the emotional component of the brain’s pain processing circuits.” |
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