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A Good Marriage Protects Widowed from Depression

Monday January 31, 2005
Widowed men and women who enjoyed good marriages when their spouses were alive are less likely than those whose marriages were bad to be depressed four years after their spouse's death. It seems that a good marriage has a protective impact on surviving spouses .

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