Psychology- Article Review 1

The article I reviewed was "In Sickness and in Health." The article was about how when you marry someone, you can adopt their habits. For example if you marry someone who smokes, you have a higher chance of smoking yourself. There is so much you can adopt from your spouse. But when things, such as an injury happen, you adopt the caregiver qualities more than the spousal qualities. Psychologists say this for everything but excersising. Excersising is different because, you personally, need the will power to get up and excersise. When your spouse excersises, you probably will not, unless you too, have the will to get up at that moment to excersise. Also when your spouse gets healthier, such as quitting smoking, you will most likely quit smoking too.
There was a study taken where there were 6,012 people taken over the course of four years, and within each and every couple there was a huge spousal change. If your spouse was a health nut, you may not adopt this change, and may indeed have arguments about what should be eaten. It could make the relationship suffer. It also said that health mismatched pairs are most likely going to end up in a divorce because they are not on the same page. They found that opposites don't attract all the time, and may make the relationship suffer.
I think that this article was very useful to psky. because if you know this information, it could really change your opinion in the long run. A lot of the information in the article was very interesting, and really gave you a second opinion on marriage and home life in general.
If you knew that you were going to undergo a huge change, would you do it. No, probably not. If you knew you were going to change stuff about you, would you do it, no. You probably would wonder what was going to change and why. You would wonder what habits you would pick up from your spouse or partner. I think this article was very useful to psyk. I think it gives you a little bit of insight on the married life.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20081027-000004&print=1



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