After 70 years of studying 268 Harvard students...

[alfreda89]

The key to happiness and success in life is...relationships. Here's a review of psychiatrist George Vaillant’s Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study.

Although it focuses on men exclusively, I still think this could be a fascinating window into half the species. Need to see if the library has it!

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[originalkitsune.livejournal.com]

looks fascinating. i will check it out sometime.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

If it focuses on men exclusively, it's got one large and obvious problem already: there's a body of work (which I'm being too lazy to look up right now) which shows that while men are happier in relationships, women are frequently happier without them! IIRC, the order of happiness was:

1. Married men
2. Unmarried women
3. Unmarried men
4. Married women

Again IIRC, this was related to the Second Shift problem, wherein women are frequently expected to hold down a job and still do all the housework as well.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I remember that study.

I reflect that reality. I nearly killed myself with a household and several other jobs. It will take quite a special man to lure me back into sharing a house.