Do single women really live th longest? Finding studies saying marrier people do

Generally, single women live longer, healthier and happier than *most* married women. This is for a multitude of reasons; less stress, smaller workload, more free time & independence, most relationships being mediocre, etc. However, people in happy marriages do have greater longevity and satisfaction in life than most singles. The point of FDS, in addition to levelling up and becoming a confident high value woman who's happy with being single, is to find and thoroughly vet a good man who's compatible with you and with whom you can forge an authentic and fulfilling marriage if that's something that would bring meaning to your life. It's called Female Dating Strategy and not Female Single Strategy for this reason. However if you think the WGTOW lifestyle would appeal to you, r/WGTOW and Ovarit have great resources and support for women who are single by choice.

I understand this question is probably just out of curiosity, but I don't think "who lives longer" counts as something because it's only 1.5-2 years top and this can be affected by so many things. (Like it changes from country to country) I think life quality is way more important than who gets to live longer, or what would fulfill me as a woman. I agree with the post that says "I don't see a married woman that I'd want her life", I know a lot of married woman and some of them may be happy but I wouldn't see myself being happy if I were in their shoes.

I only ever heard of the one that said single women live longer than married women.

Makes sense - the married women who are murdered by their husbands is going to drag that average lifespan down.

That's not even considering any of the many, many other factors that would shorten the average married woman's lifespan.

Maybe what confuses things for OP is the study saying married men live longer than single men?

A thing can be good for men but terrible for women. That's not a contradiction.

As a formally married woman, I will give my own stats lol. W women must live longer, because being a wife and mom in a household where you’re basically the man of the house and your husband is a third child is enough to drive any woman to an early grave.

Why don't you share your studies sweet pea

Link?

I don't know about lifespan but I've heard that there's research that unmarried (never married) women are the happiest. So, even if a life is not longer but happier it's good enough for me if I won't meet my HVM and will live forever alone. Either be happy on my own or with a great man. Both are fine with me.

In the US, married women have lower death rates than single women. Not only that, when married women become widows their death rates are the highest of all the female marital categories: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/mortality/mortality_marital_status_10_17.htm I don’t know what the data is like for other countries. And obviously a bad marriage isn’t healthy and should be avoided. And married men did derive a greater benefit in death rate than any other group. Although from 2010-2017 the death rate for both married men and women declined at the same rate.

Please provide links to academic or scientific peer reviewed studies.

I would be very surprised to hear that married women live longer -- even those in the fraction of marriages that are happy.

I would characterize one of my marriages as happy and have familiar knowledge of other seemingly happy marriages of a few close friends and a couple of relations.

In every instance as the partners aged, the women were far more focused on their husband's and children's health issues than their own.

Looking back on my reasoning at that time, I believed that as a woman I could just keep going, pushing past any symptoms, whereas my older husband could drop dead of heart attack or stroke any minute.

Women also frequently get saddled with being caretaker of their husband's parents as well as their own.

My guess is that as with most longevity issues this one is wedded to income -- it would obviously make a difference if you can afford professional careers (presuming you aren't mired in traditional culture expectations that the daughter/ daughter-in-law must do everything herself).

It would also be interesting to know who lives longer comparing homosexual couples to lesbian couples -- I am betting lesbians, but lesbians have children more often.

Legally married, always child-free men would have a lot more liquid wealth.

May I ask why this question is important? We have limited control over getting married/being single. There are just too many variables for a statistic like this to be helpful to anyone. I’m guessing that the people who have great quality of life and live the longest both have high incomes, social support, great healthcare and a purpose in life- but categorizing according to partnership status is a remnant of patriarchal science.