Misery: the secret to happiness
Jan Parker of the Association of Family Therapy said: “The authors are right to point out that the pursuit of relationship nirvana can be potentially damaging.”
She said it was important to explore what people mean by a happy and healthy relationship, because nobody’s life or relationship can be in a permanent state of happiness – there will always be more difficult times.
This sounds like kind of a no-brainer to me, but apparently there are a lot of people out there who have been brainwashed into thinking that getting married somehow gives them a guarantee of living ‘happily ever after’. It certainly wasn’t always so.
I blame Hollywood. 😉
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I have to agree with you. Pop culture isn’t doing us any favours by portraying relationships as they do. Or sex, for that matter.
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I know. Like what happened to Harry and Sally ten years later?
On the other hand, why are people so willing to confuse fiction with reality?
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Because it is comfortable. Just as people took the “DaVinci Code” as some sort of fact. No wonder we accept the lies of our leaders.
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