In yesterday’s post, Divorce is a change not an end, Molly said she’d learned much about herself that she wouldn’t have learned if she’d stayed married. She told me that her most significant learning centered around her happiness. Here’s Molly: I control my own happiness. No one else is responsible for it. I realized that…
Tag Archive: Happiness
A happy life after divorce
Today, I’m wrapping up Swati’s series and for this final segment, I asked Swati what she considered to be her greatest accomplishment. It wasn’t having the courage to end her marriage and it wasn’t committing to a new love. It was creating a happy life. Here’s Swati: I think creating a really positive and happy…
Caught sleeping while married
I’m starting a new series today and would like to introduce you to Sara who is a reader of Since My Divorce and agreed to an interview following a couple of comments she left. Sara was a married at 18 and the divorce was final a month shy of their 10 year anniversary. She has…
What makes us happy?
Listening to NPR yesterday, I heard this interesting discussion on Talk of Nation on what makes us happy. One of the guests was journalist, Joshua Wolf Shenk whose article “What Makes Us Happy” appears in the June issue of Atlantic magazine. Shenk writes about a Harvard study that has followed 268 men for 72 years. The study’s…
Do You Want Happiness?
Today, I’d like to share a blog post with you by a friend, Carol Grever at Straight Spouse Connection. The post is The Fight Inside Me and in it, Carol retells a story of two wolves. It’s a great story that provides a way of looking at internal conflict. Well worth the couple of minutes…
