Women who hide their feelings during rows with their spouses are four times more likely to die than those who speak out, according to a Massachusetts study reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine [2007]. It suggests that women who express their anger may relieve stress on their hearts. Men showed no difference in risk of death whether they suppressed their feelings or not. But men whose wives came home from work upset were almost three times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than men with wives who were happy at work. The study authors said men may suffer more when their wives are upset with work because they cannot protect their wives as they are normally expected to.