Our basic understanding of stress is that of a situation that goes far beyond a person’s realm of control. In the case of a woman, her inability to control certain marital situations causes her undue stress which manifests in various ways. It is these very manifestations and their effects on the health of a woman, in terms of heart risks and breast cancer survival, that shall be discussed in as great detail as possible within this paper. The term stress, is defined by Dr. Larry Alan Nadig in his online article “Stress: A Health And Relationship Killer” as the failure of a person to balance the demands of his life with his capabilities. In other words: Stress is an internal process that occurs when a person is faced with a demand that is perceived to exceed the resources available to effectively respond to it, and where failure to effectively deal with the demand has important undesirable consequences. (Nadig, “Stress: A Health And Relationship Killer, par. 2) Stress is already a common part of our daily lives. We live each day faced with the pressure of having to make various decisions that affect the way we conduct our lives and daily business. This is an illness that is highly complicated and just barely understood by medical science. It is a symptom of the way our lives have become so very hectic and choice-driven in the 21st century. Men, women, and children are constantly subjected to either mental, emotional, or physical stress because, as human beings, we are blessed with the ability to adjust and change our personalities and actions depending upon the needs and situations that we constantly find ourselves in. Since these changes are constant, we find that we are under constant stress to adapt our way of life and thinking to better suit the various situations that we constantly find ourselves existing in. These factors are known as stressors. Ordinary folk know it as Strain and can be considered a negative effect of stress. Usually, these strains are found within the circle of activity that we conduct our lives in. To begin with, as a child, we were constantly faced with the stress of needing to make friends and be accepted by our peers. While in school, we drove ourselves to the limits of our stress capability by finding a way to balance school with our other social activities. As adults, the strain then came from having to perform well at the job where we earn our income in exchange for a little recognition, or perhaps, even a promotion, from the company. Once we find ourselves married, marital stress is added to the mix as both the husband and the wife find themselves embroiled in an almost daily battle to discover that middle ground wherein both parties can agree on something without having to duke it out with either arguments or physical action. Parents face the stress of needing to prove to the world that they can raise a child properly while continuing to have a career for themselves. All of these stress-related scenarios lead to various health problems for the person. These health problems, although medically diagnosed with a root cause, usually have an underlying psychological reason for existing. It is that psychological reason that is caused by the stre