How Does a Younger Husband Affect Your Health?

We're sure there are plenty of benefits to marrying a younger guy (we're not even going to use the word "cougar") but it looks like a long life expectancy isn't one of them.

Science Daily reported that researchers from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, who studied data on Danish couples to arrive at this conclusion, aren't sure why marrying a younger guy is bad for a woman's life span.

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But according to the study, the greater the age difference, the lower the wife's life expectancy. Ouch. Even more annoying, the opposite is true for men: when they date younger women, they live longer than men who marry women their own age.

This could be because younger women care for the older men as they age, but also possibly because the type of man who attracts a younger woman tends to be healthier and richer than guys into ladies their own age. Go figure.

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