Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert May 26, 2019 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 3,454 |
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We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a leading expert in happiness...
“Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: fucking miserable,” he said...
Men benefited from marriage because they “calmed down”, he said. “You take less risks, you earn more money at work, and you live a little longer. She, on the other hand, has to put up with that, and dies sooner than if she never married. The healthiest and happiest population subgroup are women who never married or had children,” he said...
“You see a single woman of 40, who has never had children – ‘Bless, that’s a shame, isn’t it? Maybe one day you’ll meet the right guy and that’ll change.’ No, maybe she’ll meet the wrong guy and that’ll change. Maybe she’ll meet a guy who makes her less happy and healthy, and die sooner.”
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Re: Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert May 27, 2019 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,180 |
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Most women are trained to be shamed by "selfishness" and give up their entire beings for husband and brats. A new mom doesn't seem to be "allowed" to take time to shower herself or cook a meal. She *must* tit feed instead of letting her husband give the kid formula to give her a break. "Attatchment parenting" means she has to have the brat tethered to her for the first 5 years. And she takes on all the housework and a ft job, too. The male of the family still gets to kick back and play video games for hours and then bitch his wife isn't interested in sex anymore.
Re: Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert May 27, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,944 |
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The study found that levels of happiness reported by those who were married was higher than the unmarried, but only when their spouse was in the room.
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Most women are trained to be shamed by "selfishness" and give up their entire beings for husband and brats.
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Re: Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert June 07, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,425 |
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There is more evidence, but it can never provide a definitive answer on how any of us should live our lives. Instead it is more useful to focus on why so many people seemed to take the suggestion that single women are doing just fine without men and children so personally and so badly. It certainly appears that the “married is best” narrative remains pervasive.
A study in Israel (where there are relatively strong ideals around marriage) asked people to look at comparable biographical accounts of both married and single people (invented by the researchers) and then to rate the extent to which they displayed several traits. Most people assumed the married folk scored higher on traits relating to happiness than the “depressive”, “lonely” and “shy” singletons. No matter how single people were described and what great things they had experienced and achieved, people were insistent that their happiness must have been overstated.