The Importance Of Happiness In Relationships

Happiness is a positive mental or emotional state stemming from biology as well as outside circumstances. Often, people believe that by achieving certain levels of success and wealth, their happiness levels will rise, but that is not the case. Since many factors influencing one’s happiness lie in biology, it is largely predetermined. Happiness is just as influenced by biology as it is by external factors.

Happiness is one of the most significant dimensions of human experience. Many people can argue that happiness is a meaningful and desirable entity. Studies indicate that everyone pursues happiness in various aspects of their life. Our four fathers saw happiness as a need, so they made the pursuit of happiness as one of the three unalienable rights branded in the Declaration of Independence. There is a sense of complexity behind the meaning of happiness; its definition is not definite. Think of happiness as a rope; there are many thin fiber strands bonded together to become the strength of the rope. Like the analogy of the rope, there are numerous factors that can contribute to an individual’s overall happiness in life. This study is going to

Each part of The Myths of Happiness examines the specific situations that occur in most people’s lives from relationship

A heathy relationship foster, genuine love, that's evident by openness, trust and the freedom to give oneself to another' Happiness is not a simple thing. I believe in order to achieve healthy happiness, it beings with a grateful mindset. According to psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsk, "Happiness, more than anything, is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside. (Pursuing Happiness 185). I believe the right mental attitude, plays a major roll, in healthy happiness. On the other hand, a mind that harbor's anger, bitterness and hurt reduces that chance, these emotions foster unhealthy happiness and the possibility of a unhealthy life. Lyumboirsky notes you can manage your state of mind (185). There are many contrast levels of happiness. In this essay we will compare healthy vs unhealthy. While relationships in general are important for ultimate currency, romantic relationships reign supreme (Happier 111).

If you went to elementary school, you probably remember the catchy playground rhyme: “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage.” Girls and boys would giggle in excitement at the thought of having a crush, wedding, and eventually a child. From the beginning, we have been told these ideals will make us happy and fulfilled; however, being in a relationship is a little more serious than a playground rhyme. Long before this rhyme existed, ordinary people and philosophers alike have been trying to address the question, “What is happiness and how can we achieve it?” Do we need a traditional romance and family to achieve happiness or can we achieve it from within?

The fourth generation Director of the Harvard Study Adult Development, Robert Waldinger, relays the secrets of a long healthy life during a TED talk originally filmed November 2015. The continuous longitudinal study began over 75 years ago tracking the lives of 724 men from either from the impoverished areas of Boston or high school graduates or later served in World War 2. Of the 724 men followed about 60 are still alive and well most in their 90’s and all have the same thing in common factor, healthy relationships. From this study the answer to a long healthy life was fond in the quality of close relationships each of the participants had with their family, friends and community will result in a healthier outlook on life both physically

Happiness can come in many forms, but it is hard to find true, real happiness. George Sand, a French novelist once said, “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” In order to find this kind of happiness, you have to be with others, because you can not love or be loved when you are alone. Happiness is meant to be shared, being with others can make ordinary things better, and others can bring you to ease about questions you have and choices you must make that cause you to become lost. Knowing these three things can either help you work towards becoming happy, or increase your current happiness with your life.

Relationships are all about love, happiness, and support. It is also a way of taking the time to know your significant other in ways that are personal and different than any other type of relationship that you can have. Being in a military relationship is different than other relationships, the struggles and not to mention the distance that is faced while being in one.

People constantly have the desire to want more and often believe that by fulfilling those desires, it will increase their happiness. One problem is, people do not just live with simplicity in their lives, which is a direct reflection of their environment and societal factors that influence these continuous desires. Happiness is a very pertinent goal for people to reach. Today’s society has the misconception of happiness as being blinded by monetary and materialistic gains such as wealth, power, social media, and success. The “Mental Health Foundation's survey illustrating that 76 per cent of respondents think society is becoming more materialistic and selfish” (Buggey). Many people contemplate on whether or not it is even possible for individuals to attain happiness, which has driven researchers to neglect to study happiness because some believe that we would be better off by simply accepting our current happiness. However, we believe another reason for this neglect is the pessimistic view “over whether it is even possible to achieve sustainable increases in happiness” (Sheldon, K. & Lyubomirsky, S. (2006). With several different aspects of if happiness is even achievable, there are still individuals who believe there are.

In the search of happiness, meaning makes an impact. When we experience happiness, we are placing meaning to that specific event. The association we make and link our happiness too has to have meaning. The reason person A enjoys long walks at the park and associates them with happiness is because it brings back happy childhood memories. Person B may not associate long walks at the park with happiness, but Sunday meals with the family with happiness. The reason different people have different meanings of happiness is because we can create and bring our own meaning to happiness. To know what brings meaning to your life is a crucial part of finding happiness. When someone can establish what brings meaning to their lives; they can stat to embrace those relationships more. Jeff Haden writer of the article, “Want to Be happier? Science Says Do These 11 Things Every Single Day,” says “staying in touch with friends and family is one of the top five regrets of the dying” (Jeff Haden, “Want to Be Happier Science Says Do These 11 Things Every Single Day”). The relationship we form with the people we love creates a happy experience; those who do not invest the time to spend to cultivate their relationships run the risk of missing out on happiness. In the search of meaningfulness, we have to let go of the meaning we put on the things we acquire like: money, clothes, house, cars. If we neglect our meaningful relationships in order to obtain riches and wealth, it will be at the expense of

Happiness holds relationships together. Finding someone who makes feelings arise, plastering a smiling on one’s face, draws any person in. It’s the warmth one wants and the intensity one longs for. Without this feeling, there is no reason to become involved. There would be no relational

Society continues to ask where an individual's happiness and unhappiness derives from. Many can say it depends on the lifestyle you live and your living environment. However, true happiness comes from the internal factors within an individual. Many times individuals afflict the feeling of unhappiness onto themselves with their own personal outlook on their lives. All individuals are responsible of their happiness and with that “we have become unfamiliar with how to make ourselves happy. When we come back to the idea that we make ourselves happy it may seem foreign.” (Happiness In Relationships).

These experiences with self doubt and dependence on people around me has been influential and impactful in where and how I obtain happiness and meaning from and through my life. I have often struggled with questions such as what brings me happiness and even something like “what is real happiness?”1 which, as stated by Adam M. Green in the essay Happiness 101, is a question that many people struggle with, even if they are consciously unaware of it. My meaning and happiness come from the intrinsic goods in my life. The things that intrinsically bring me happiness is the love, trust, and happiness imparted

I believe that every human being deserves the chance to pursue happiness, regardless of their race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. We deserve the same chance because we are all born equal, but just because we have the chance to pursue happiness it doesn’t mean we are entitled to do whatever we want. There are restrictions we should consider as we pursue happiness because we can’t be going around breaking the law or hurting people. I also think that we should allow ourselves to experience more than just happiness, for example, anger, grief, fear, love and so on.

Early Modern Europe experienced several tragedies in which the citizens sensed that there must be a better way to live where happiness was more familiar. Alterations for what truly defines absolute happiness in a society during these times of catastrophe were expressed through utopian literature. Thomas More’s Utopia, Tomasso Campanella’s City of the Sun, and Caron De Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro together attempt to answer what truly creates a happy civilization during different periods of crisis within Europe. Each of these utopian literature’s suggest a different origin that happiness derives from, soundly signifying that change in Europe would be beneficial. The revolutionary ideas of change in Europe proposed by Utopia, City of