“My life is driving me crazy”: Why happiness can be hard for women to find
by Mira and Charles on September 28th, 2007It’s pretty simple. Take a nice, normal, happy woman. Give her too much to do. Subtract enough time to do it. Add a generous helping of guilt if she doesn’t get it all done. What does it add up to?
A rising tide of unhappiness. Check it out.
And guess what? It now turns out that in fact women’s lives are making them less and less happy. Why? It’s that ever-growing to-do list that haunts the days and nights of so many women.
IT’S DISCOURAGING TO NEVER FEEL YOU’RE MAKING HEADWAY IN YOUR LIFE.At the Chestnut Hill Institute we’ve seen this coming for a long time. That’s why we wrote, for example, The Weekend Marriage. It’s about finding time for love when it seems like there’s no time for love. Because, as you know, when your relationship becomes just another item on your to-do list, it never gets enough attention paid to it. There’s always something more urgent that crowds it out. But the good news is you can have a good relationship amidst the time-starved lives we all lead. And a good relationship is one of the most power contributors to happiness. You can do it. And we can show you how.
