The immediate stress of a breakup, and the chronic stress after, can be so great it can affect our health. When people go through a marital separation, they show significant declines in immune system strength. Newly separated people visit doctors more often, have more acute and chronic health problems than married people, die from infections at a greater rate. Contrary to the usual image of a newly separated man celebrating his “freedom” by prowling nightclubs for beddable women, men appear to suffer more severely, perhaps because men invest all their emotional bonding in their partner,
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