Is Your Marriage Stressing You Out?

Researchers at Binghamton University studied married couples who felt either supported by their spouses or not. In the latter group, the stress hormone, cortisol, was ever present in their saliva.

I was 32 and the mother of two toddlers the first time I sought out the help of a psychiatrist. During our first intake session, I told her that my spouse’s lack of support was becoming a constant source of chronic stress. If I could just feel seen, heard, and loved, I said, maybe I could turn off the endless tap of cortisol I could feel coursing throu…