Men and women have very different emotional reactions to the strain and support they experience in marriage new research has found. When a marriage has troubles women worry. They become sad. They get frustrated. For men it is sheer frustration and not much more the study said. Looking at sadness worry and frustration - among the most common negative emotions reported by older adults - the researchers discovered that men and women in long-term marriages deal with marriage difficulties differently. The men do not really want to talk about it or spend too much time thinking about it said Deborah