What makes women happy?

[emkana]

\link{http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,,1792220,00.html\quite interesting, I thought}

see this waiting for a baby bit has its advantages Em! You are reading enough for all of us!

interesting

I'm quite happy though most of the time

Ideally though, I'd swap one day a week of my life now for a day in my life when I'm retired

ah just to sit in a chair with a cup of tea all day - lovely

very interesting

nail on head, mp

morningpaper - when I retire I'll be so poor I'll only be able to afford 1 cup of tea per week. Possibly. So I think I'll count my blessings now and accept I'm probably very happy and quite lucky :)

I think true happiness comes from an ability to stop yearning for what we might have in the future and recognise those tiny flashes of contentment we have during the day, right now. And if you can find at least one of those moments every day, you are happy. Counting your blessings sounds like such a nauseating Hallmark card thing, but it works for me.
Does that sound like bollocks???

No, fmf, that's exactly what I think.

money
swimming pool
mercedes

i would be very happy

or i wouldbe still sad - but be able to be depressed in my swimming pool then go to the doctors in my air conditioned merc that i bought with all my money

" think true happiness comes from an ability to stop yearning for what we might have in the future and recognise those tiny flashes of contentment we have during the day, right now. "

That is sooo true! That is almost word for word what I said to DH last night. We had quite a manic weekend although we didn't actually acheive or do that much in the end. I spent much of it feeling frazzled and too hot. Then when DH and I finally got some time to ourselves last night I stood there in the kitchen with a glass of wine in hand and watched the sun going down over the garden and felt totally happy.

Having said that, enough money to move into my dream house and never have to fret over bl**dy car insurance and paying for school trips would be nice too...

I'm happy, satisfied, contented....:)!

We do have a lot of choices (thankfully), but you have to work out what makes you happy to make the choices that make you happy.

..its a long article, I don't have time to read much of it.

Very interesting article.
I agree with you fmf.
I am generally quite happy as I love where I am in my life at the moment. Of course, I would love a bigger house, more money etc but I tend to focus on what I do have.
I have a friend who is always focused on what she doesn't have and is never, and never will be either, happy. Its sad but true. I always end up having to point out the fact that she has a lovely child, lovely husband, nice house etc and she moans about the fact that she should be living in a big house, she should have had more children and she should be more successful career-wise.
How can anyone ever be happy if they are always looking to an ideal and never attaining it?
Happiness is definitely in finding contentment in where you are and what you have achieved.