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Nobody is Responsible For Your Happiness
It doesn't mean it's okay for people to take away from it
I recently wrote an article, and I talked about how negatively a lack of love and unhappiness in a relationship affects children. I wrote, “If a daughter sees her mommy unhappy all the time in a relationship, she grows up thinking that's okay and if a son sees his father unhappy and failing to make the mother happy, she grows up thinking happiness isn't a requirement in a relationship.” Many people seemed to have a problem with the statement.
Nobody is responsible for your happiness and I agree with that, but just because I have to make myself happy doesn’t mean people are allowed to keep doing things that make me unhappy.
Happiness is a personal thing and it’s very difficult to remain in that state day in and day out. We are humans, we are triggered easily and our emotions change very quickly. According to this article, many people wish they were happier than they currently were. If happiness was easy to tap in, the world would be a happy place, but it’s not.
If you truly love your partner, you make their happiness your priority and if you think their happiness isn’t your…
