Posted on 05/30/2019 8:02:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
All the single ladies, put your hands up!
And if you like being single, then don’t put a ring on it because according to a recent study, women are at their most happiest when unattached and childless!
Behavioral scientist Paul Dolan revealed that traditional benchmarks, such as marriage and children, were no longer signs of fulfillment and don't line up with happiness.
“The healthiest and happiest population subgroup are women who never married or had children,” he said when speaking at the Hay Festival in the United Kingdom over the weekend.
According to Dr. Dolan, men tended to benefit from marriage because it reduced “risk-taking” behaviors and “calms them down” a bit. “You earn more money at work, and you live a little longer,” he added. “As for your calming, un-risky wife? Well, she, on the other hand, has to put up with that, and dies sooner than if she never married.” …
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Before cats and boxed wine?
I heard Dr. Joyce Brothers say the 50+ years ago on Art Linkletter. Didn’t surprise me. Some of the most screwed up women I’ve known never had kids but they were happy I think.
Lots of mad people call their mania “happiness”.
u been they’re lying 2 themselves?
I don’t doubt that single, childless women have less stress than married moms. It’s stating the obvious to say that when you’re responsible for multiple people, you have more stress than if you’re only responsible for one person (yourself). But when all is said and done and they’re at the end of their lives, you can’t tell me that most moms aren’t glad they did it... and most childless women regret that they never had kids, grandkids, etc.
My advice to any single young man is to avoid narcissistic women.
Got that right.
Thinking women’s happiness single and no kids is an age related sliding scale graph that starts as a positive maximum at 18, crosses the zero at about 45-50 and plunges to negative number after that.
My experience with friends backs this up.
Depends on what one is defining as “stress”. Self-deception can be stressful enough, never mind concerns for one’s health as consequences for risky behavior.
Is that the biggest commonality between the enhanced suicide rates of 45 year old women over other age groups being husbandless and childless, because they are happy?
Self-deception is a very prevalent modern plague. And it is not without consequences, not by far.
. . . and Tinder?
I’m happiest with everyone around. Kids, husband and I’ve been single and without kids in the house
The best is at home with the kids when they’re little not having to lease the house to run around doing someone else’s priorities just to keep up with the mortgage
We used to open up the windows and play Chopin in the morning then put on Rogers and Hammerstein or the Gershwin- American in Paris or bugs bunny or blues clues
Get the stroller out
This is way underrated. Way
It’s like I told my kids: happiness is great but it’s better to do the right thing.
According to “a recent study”. Sure, that’s all I need as proof.
Of COURSE they say that..!
All bridges to kids are gone so they declare themselves happy:
Simple.
Sorta like having a JOBS SUMMIT:
Problem fixed.
[Some say men are far happier without a wife...]
Certainly 100% after they have been “divorce raped” for sure.
I'm 53 and I'm very happy not to have had kids. But I never wanted them. And I work with kids all day, so when I get home, I'm glad it's quiet and clean and I can finally relax.
Single women rarely do anything alone. That is why they have cats. Men have no problem going places alone
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