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03-17-2003, 07:51 PM
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Does marriage make you happy?
According this study no.
Well, I've known quite a few people who thought that getting married would some how make them happy, I always thought otherwise, though. Now we've got some research to prove it. I bet Pat Robertson won't be running this story on his show  .
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03-17-2003, 07:57 PM
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It's a great source of happiness. However, I don't think it can turn an unhappy person into a happy one.
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03-18-2003, 03:21 AM
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Yes and no. It has it's ups and downs.
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03-18-2003, 03:16 PM
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Does marriage make one happy? Maybe for a while. But true Joy can only come from God.
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03-18-2003, 03:19 PM
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03-18-2003, 03:24 PM
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Anyway, Marriage does make one happy in a way. That's happy in a marriage sort of way. If you ain't married, you can't experience it.  There's no joy at all in believeing there's an imaginery being looking out just for you. On the contrary when shit keeps happening to you, you might contemplate to commit suicide instead. 
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03-18-2003, 06:51 PM
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I know some people whose marriage would make me really happy....
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03-18-2003, 07:46 PM
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Does anyone see a problem with their lack of definition of "marriage"?
Should that be presumed to be "got a license and had the ritual performed", or can it be generalized to "were single and now are cohabiting and identifying as a couple"? Especially in this modern world there would seem to be a lot of people who would meet the latter definition vs the former. Is the study trying to determine if a ritual makes a difference, or if "being a couple" makes a difference? And in either case, how does this tie into "moral foundations and principles"? cheers, Michael (not married, but part of a couple for a long time) |
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03-18-2003, 11:52 PM
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Married for two decades now and very happy. My second marriage, his first and our last.
We have to work at it at times but most of the kinks we have worked out. My husband knows he is right 10% of the time and I am 90%. (KIDDING!) Spurly I have more joy now than I had when I was a Christian. I know quite a few miserably unhappy Christians. Sorry but from my POV, you are mistaken. |
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03-19-2003, 07:53 AM
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Do friends make you happy?
Do good events happening to you make you happy? Do you make yourself happy? What does it mean for something to "make you happy"? Turn you from unhappy to happy? Maintain or improve upon a previous state of happiness? Certainly people can be married and be happy. Certainly people can be happier married than unmarried. But people can also be happy living by themselves on the top of an isolated mountain. Different strokes for different folks. Me, I like getting stroked by my wife.  Jamie |
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