Better Hearing Can Make Your Heart Happy

Romantic relationships are dependent upon emotional, verbal and physical connections. For people who are hard of hearing and their significant others, hearing loss can be a barrier to all of these things.

Don’t spend on temporary pleasures like red roses, candy hearts and delicious chocolates. While these are very lovely and delicious things that make hearts and bellies happy, there’s a more meaningful, permanent gift that may help improve and protect relationships for the long term: hearing aids.

Hearing aids probably aren’t the first things you think of when planning a romantic weekend or celebration of love. But let me tell you why it should be top of mind if you or someone you know has hearing loss.

Improved communication

There are many important things that make up healthy and successful relationships, but they all start with good communication. Listening, understanding and responding back appropriately are all key when having a conversation with loved ones.

Imagine talking with your family and not being able to understand what is being said. If you or someone you know it struggling to hear, you’ve probably experienced one or more of these common reactions:

“Huh? Can you repeat that?” or “What did you say?”

Ignore the conversation and stop responding altogether.

Respond inappropriately with something that doesn’t make sense.

Get upset and walk away.

Now, imagine if the scenarios above continued to happen day in and day out in your relationships for years. Whether you’re the one with hearing loss, or it’s happening to someone you know, you’re likely to experience a lot of frustration and draining arguments, ultimately leading to a less happy relationship overall.

But there is a solution. Modern hearing aids, like the Horizon by hear.com, put most hearing challenges in the past. With a speech focus enhancer and incredible background noise reduction, you’ll be able to focus on what matters most in your life – communicating effectively with those you love.

More interest in activities

It’s proven that hearing loss can cause fatigue. Why? As mentioned above, our brain is what makes sense of sound. So, if you have hearing loss, your brain has to work overtime to try and understand what’s being said. When you’re concentrating extremely hard all day, every day, to understand what’s being said on the TV, what your friends and family are saying to you at home and over the phone, or even when you’re talking with the pharmacist or store clerk, you’ll find yourself exhausted throughout the day.

Those with hearing loss may avoid things they love because their inability to hear may prevent them from fully being able to participate in activities and conversations and sometimes even lead to embarrassment. For example, if someone is playing tennis or even having a group dinner at a local restaurant and they can’t hear what’s being said and respond inappropriately, they may get teased or criticised for misunderstanding. This can really take a toll on someone’s mental health.

But with today’s medical-grade hearing aids, the misunderstanding and embarrassment can be things of the past. The lightning-fast technology chip in today’s devices is 50 times faster than it was five years ago. This means that the newest hearing devices on the market, immensely improve speech clarity so your brain doesn’t have to put as much effort into understanding sound. This means you will have more energy and can get back to enjoying all the activities and hobbies you once loved, especially with your friends and family.

Increased happiness

If someone has gotten used to hearing loss overtime and hasn’t acted on treating it, they may not realise how much it’s impacting their happiness.

When you can communicate better with loved ones, and participate in activities you love, you’ll automatically feel more energised and ultimately, happier. Untreated hearing loss can lead to loneliness, depression and isolation, so staying connected with good hearing is extremely important when it comes to feeling happy with yourself and those around you.