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She did a great job of acting like a caring, kind person while dating Harry. She needed to rush into marriage so she could drop the act. She needed to have a baby really fast to secure a permanent tether to the RF name.
That chapter is now closed and she on to the next plan, which is to get rich on the coat tails of the RF. That will not make her happy. One day she will realize that it is relationships with people that make people happy, but it will likely be too late.
While this is from a thread on the crackup of the Royal Family this thread is NOT about Megxit. It is about the highlighted portion of the quoted thread.
In another context I recently finished reading Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor by Willard Sterne Randall.I suspect from reading the book that Benedict Arnold did not die a happy man. Spurned by the country he betrayed, not really welcomed by the country for whom he executed the treason, and having sired a child out of wedlock despite having a (then) doting wife, he died a broken, indebted and bitter man at a relatively young age. What Meghan Markle and Benedict Arnold have in common, in addition to being Americans in London, is gratuitously kicking the ones they supposedly love in the teeth. In my view, that never ends well. Perhaps, hopefully, they look back on times when they had true friends.
Whelp, Homo sapiens is a communal species that tends to benefit through relationships with others, so there's that. A human who chooses to spurn, take unfair advantage, and abuse others is bound to end up alone eventually. It probably won't kill them outright (even though there's statistical evidence it can), but they are less likely to pass their genes on to the next generation unless they are lucky enough to breed early.
The only thing that makes me happy is friendships. Money is nice, but anyone who has had a big pot of money knows that it really is just one more big responsibility. Put me in a room with someone who has a lively lovely kind mind for an hour and I will thrive for a month.
"Positive" relationships make for happiness. I've been in negative relationships and they're not so great. relationships based on mutual respect for each other are great and to be nurtured.
"Positive" relationships make for happiness. I've been in negative relationships and they're not so great. relationships based on mutual respect for each other are great and to be nurtured.
Good point!
Certainly relationships where one party nurtures the ties for their own reason and then backstabs don't enrich people any more than they enriched the lives of the two people in the OP.
Do Relationships Make for Happiness? (I believe so) (wife, person, abuse)
Absolutely.
I have said many times, "Everyone needs a partner". A friend can be a partner. A spouse. Sibling. In my town I see a mother-daughter partnership that works. Everything works, gay straight, or in between.
Everyone needs someone they can depend on for all things major and minor. You need someone to share your life.
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Do Relationships Make for Happiness?
IMO....YES...BUT only if it's a healthy relationship. There are many dysfunctional relationships or angry ppl that don't make for happiness.....they just spread the bitter & dysfunction around. edit: you can see a lot of that on the forum IMO.
Relationship doesn't make for happiness. Why? Because you reflect who you are in your relationship. If you're not first a happy person, you can't get or give happiness. One question I want ask is "what is happiness? " You can't be happy or experience happiness until you define what it is to you. Some of us are looking for what we're yet to identify or define; that's why we keep jumping from one activity to another or from one person to another in hope of finding what is missing. Yet we don't know what is it that is missing that we're looking for. So I'm gonna end my response like this, whether relationship can make for happiness or not is dependent on your perception of what happiness is to you.
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