Relationships Want To Live A Longer Life? Just Get Married. Like It’s That Easy The judgments passed on singles are frequent and damning. Want to live longer? Be happier? Get richer? Just get married. No problem. Or is it? By jitendermittal Published 11 July, 2025 Relationships Want To Live A Longer Life? Just Get Married. Like It’s That Easy The judgments passed on singles are frequent and damning. Want to live longer? Be happier? Get richer? Just get married. No problem. Or is it? By jitendermittal Published 11 July, 2025 Previous article The Key To Weight Loss May Lie In The Gut Next article The Classiest Spirits (For When You’re Over Wine) Professors at the University of Pennsylvania recently developed a life expectancy calculator. You answer a bunch of questions about your age, fitness and lifestyle and they tell you how long you will live.I put in my details. Thirty-five, female, high income, excellent health, good physical fitness, non-smoker, single. The results come up. Life expectancy: not as high as you might think. And the major impacting factor? Being single. Apparently married people just live longer. Lucinda Bradlow is an Australian living and working in Washington, D.C. as a communications consultant. She spent most of her 20s travelling to and studying Africa and is a specialist in development communications. love relationships Best Of Future Women Culture The impossible choice faced by tens of thousands of Australian women By rosa707225 Culture It’s morally corrupt. And it’s happening to one in six women By jitendermittal Culture How Toto’s* ex-husband used their children to keep her poor By jitendermittal Culture “Never an excuse”: Why Katrina still can’t stand the smell of bourbon By jitendermittal Culture Janine never thought divorce would mean losing her family and friends By jitendermittal Culture “Invisible victims”: Why Conor was forced to live in an unsafe home By jitendermittal Culture Miranda*’s mothers group helped her escape abuse. Then the stalking began By jitendermittal Leadership Why Jamila Rizvi wants us to talk about men By rosa707225 Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.