According to a report on ABC TV, and contrary to popular belief, men are more affected by a rocky relationship than their female counterparts, according to new research from Wake Forest University.
Research shows that women have a harder time coping with a breakup, but the guys are the ones who feel more stress and strain when the relationship hits a rough patch, researchers found. On the upside, men also get more of a psychological and emotional boost when the relationship is healthy.
"Common wisdom says that women are more hurt by problems in a relationship," says Robin Simon, lead researcher on the study and a sociologist at Wake Forest, "but we found that the benefits of support [in a relationship] and the disadvantages of strain are exaggerated for the men. Men are more sensitive than we often think they are," she says.
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Are you telling me that we should have been voting for women all this time because the really emotional gender was men?
ReplyDeleteI get really tired of taking care of people who don't give a crap about me.
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