The XX Factor: What women really think.

Everything You Need To Know About Marriage

These few words from a BBC News story speak volumes:

US psychologists found wives in tense marriages were prone to risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. In comparison, husbands seemed relatively immune from such problems.

Heart disease, of course, is the No. 1 killer of women. The AHA counsels prevention through exercise and good nutrition, and, now, divorce. Not really, of course, but this suggests that beneath all those TV sitcoms on which the wife looks fit and healthy and the husband seems fat and winded lurks a murkier truth.