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Happy wife key to happy life for men

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True! Keeping wife in good humor is the key to a successful marriage...In case wife is unhappy, the reason can be small or big, it leads to discontentment...The wife's anger causes rift in family and results in marital discord

Happy wife key to happy life for men: study

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THE HINDU A husband who is unhappy with his marriage is still likely to be happy with his life — if his wife gives their marriage high marks, a new study suggests.

The research is among the first to examine the influence of his and her marriage appraisals on psychological well-being among older couples.


A husband who is unhappy with his marriage is still likely to be happy with his life — if his wife gives their marriage high marks, a new study suggests.


“Older husbands and wives in better marriages are more satisfied with their lives,” said Vicki Freedman, a research professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.


“But overall life satisfaction for an unhappily married man depends on how his wife describes their relationship. If she describes their marriage as higher quality, his life satisfaction is buoyed — even if he gives the marriage a less glowing assessment,” said Freedman, a co-author with Rutgers University sociologist Deborah Carr.


The research is among the first to examine the influence of his and her marriage appraisals on psychological well-being among older couples.
“Marital quality is an important buffer against the health-depleting effects of later-life stressors such as care-iving, and a critical resource as couples manage difficult decisions regarding their care in later life,” Carr said.


Freedman and Carr analysed 2009 data from a sample of 394 couples who were part of the ISR Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a national panel study of a representative sample of US families. At least one spouse in each couple was aged 60 or older.
They found that life satisfaction and momentary happiness did not differ significantly by gender. Both husbands and wives, on average, rated their general life satisfaction as 5 out of 6 and happiness very close to 5.


They also found that husbands rated their marriages slightly more positively than wives, on average.


“For both husbands and wives, being in a better-rated marriage was linked to greater life satisfaction and happiness,” Carr said.


“But wives’ assessments of the marriage are more important in some respects than their husbands’ reports,” she said.


The study was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Happy wife key to happy life for men: study - The Hindu
 
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most men look happy if you go by looks

they know the next meal is coming from the happy [?] wife who has cooked it for him

if you scratch the exterior by denying one meal you can find out this unpleasant truth
 
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Oh, Renu! That is what each lady says! :lol:

dear RR ji,

When I ask my husband if he is happy..he says yes very very happy..but when he asks me if I am very very happy..I always say 'I dont know".

You see I am honest with my answer..men usually dare not be be too honest to their wives becos they fear the wife will get mad or be hurt.

But how do we really know if we are happy?

There is no proven way to know..one can imagine that they are happy...but are they always right?

We dont know..so my answer is I dont know.
 
Dear Renu,

Happiness is also mAyA!! :) ( Sravna Sir! Where are you??)

If we keep ONLY pleasant memories in mind, we appear to be happy;

If we brood over unpleasant memories / worry about the future, then we appear unhappy!

We have a friend who always laments about his fear about his future. He talks about the raising prices and the

decreasing interest rates! If we spend about half an hour with him, our lips become droopy like an inverted U !!
 
What makes one happy may depend on the individual. One may be happy for the wrong reasons and so the happiness may not sustain. The term I use for real and enduring happiness, the reason for which cannot be wrong, is bliss. If you can derive bliss, no one can take that happiness away from you. Having said that I would say, bliss is almost impossible to experience. So almost everyone has to experience sadness too and only learn to cope up with it. That itself constitutes an important step towards mental maturity.

Coming to this specific case, does a happy wife mean a happy husband? If so should one, one try to make wife happy to be happy? One should not make too much out of all these experimental results. Unless there is a sound rationale behind the conclusion of these results, it is better not to take them seriously. In the matters of the mind, philosophical works being more logical offer a better guide than science.
 
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