Invest in your relationships

After following the lives of 268 Harvard undergraduate males from the classes of 1938 to 1940 for decades, psychiatrist George Vaillant concluded something you probably already know Love is the key to happiness. Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced good health, without loving relationships he wouldn t be happy, Vaillant found. The longitudinal study showed happiness depends on two things One is love, he wrote. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away.