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Let Go of Romantic Fairy Tales and Start Living
Are you an adult who still believes in fairy tales? Like the ones that say we will fall in love with the romantic partner of our dreams and live happily ever after. It’s hard not to think this way. Books, movies, and even some TV shows keep the fairy tale going. They entertain us with dramas of romantic partners who overcome some sort of obstacle to their love.
Men: A Practical Guide for a Better Relationship
Most men are grossly lacking in their get-along-with-women skills. The women I have polled over the last 40 years say that the majority of men have little to no idea about what works in a relationship with a woman. This is both sad and strange given how important women are to most of us.
3 Steps to a Better Marriage
There’s an interesting study in the October issue of Personality and Social Psychology. Researchers have “discovered” what makes people happily married. It’s when the number of positive experiences with their spouse is roughly three times the number of negative encounters in day-to-day life.
Forecasting Your Happiness
How do you know if, say, starting a new business will really make you happier? Here’s how — with the final step in my plan for forecasting your happiness.
It’s Time to Start Moving Toward Real Happiness
In past articles I encouraged you to evaluate your own emotional well-being by taking my General Inventory of Life Satisfaction (GILS). This week I want to show how to use the results of your self-assessment to move toward achieving real and lasting happiness, contentment and satisfaction with life.
Sex: The Forbidden Food
Sex is a big problem in American society, a problem that we are not even close to resolving. We love it. We hate it. We are obsessed with it, yet we often act as if it does not exist. We think it’s wonderful, exciting, good, bad, natural, unnatural, clean, dirty, acceptable and forbidden.
