In 1900, the divorce rate was less than 10% for most of the developed world. These days, it’s around 50% for most developed countries because women no longer have to stay in an unhappy relationship or marriage. So, you can’t just expect her to stick around for life is you aren’t...
Why be singularly unhappy when you balance work with marriage and family?DANI GARAVELLI
and they were very sad. The old man returned alone to his home, folded up his wedding suit with tears in his eyes, and paced up and down his chamber the whole day, and would not go to bed at all, for I was underneath him and heard him walking the whole night; and for myself,...
Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently ‘time poor’—like they have too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Time poverty is
To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment. — Mo Gawdat 73 Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned,...
“We’d be pariahs even if we won the legal fight, I know. Society would revile us.” “But it doesn’t need to be public,” Wisteria said. “Nikola can officiate the marriage between you and I, and that would make me technically Lady Comfrey so I could officiate for you and he....
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In a scarcity-based system, happy people only exist because unhappy people do. One person must miss out for another to have gained. Some people must be poor in order for others to be rich. This mentality is so deeply ingrained that it’s hard to remember that joy simply doesn’t work ...
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“I am the luckiest woman I feel that ever was,” she says. ”And why I have this, and why I was given this, I have no idea. But I’m just blessed every day that I get to live here.” Janice goes on to explain that she wasn’t necessarily unhappy back in Georgia, and enjoye...