Why having a dinner party is good for your health

We've all had the mad rush of cooking and cleaning to make everything just right for our guests. Clean towels in the powder room, polished wood floors, vacuumed carpets, sparkling windows…. I have a friend who even gets down and scrubs the baseboards before company comes over.

In this day and age, with many of us adopting side gigs for extra income we wonder how anyone has the time to host people for dinner with all the work involved. But it's important to recognize that all this effort is not a “waste” of time, it's part of our emotional health.