“The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
—Robert Waldinger, a Harvard psychiatrist who ran the Harvard Grant Study for years
How are your relationships?
For the most part, mine are good. I’m grateful I have a wife that gets along with me. My relationship with my kids couldn’t be better. I have one sibling who I don’t talk to, not because I haven’t tried to get along, she just chooses to not communicate with me after we “made up” over a big fight over my Dad’s will years ago.
Other relationships have come and gone, some just faded out of lack of communication due to moving away and not checking in often enough.
In my experience…if my wife and I are fighting, I am not happy and it’s not good for my health. This is one reason I do my best to avoid dumb arguments and try to reconcile as fast as I can when we do have a fight. It can suck the life out of you if you let anger and bitterness linger for too long.
I hope y’all have great relationships and do your part to keep them healthy.
Be careful out there!
Proverbs 17:17 &1 Peter 4:8
TSK
—Robert Waldinger, a Harvard psychiatrist who ran the Harvard Grant Study for years
How are your relationships?
For the most part, mine are good. I’m grateful I have a wife that gets along with me. My relationship with my kids couldn’t be better. I have one sibling who I don’t talk to, not because I haven’t tried to get along, she just chooses to not communicate with me after we “made up” over a big fight over my Dad’s will years ago.
Other relationships have come and gone, some just faded out of lack of communication due to moving away and not checking in often enough.
In my experience…if my wife and I are fighting, I am not happy and it’s not good for my health. This is one reason I do my best to avoid dumb arguments and try to reconcile as fast as I can when we do have a fight. It can suck the life out of you if you let anger and bitterness linger for too long.
I hope y’all have great relationships and do your part to keep them healthy.
Be careful out there!
Proverbs 17:17 &1 Peter 4:8
TSK
