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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

Sharon May, Ph.D. THE ONE THING THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

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Picking the book off the shelf, I turned to page one and read the opening sentence. It was a question. “If you had to make one life choice, right now, to set yourself on the path to future health and happiness, what would it be?” 1 Curious about the answer, I flipped through the pages until I found the author’s simple and clear answer, “Good relationships.” 2 The book is The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz. It is based on the research project called The Harvard Study of Adult Devel opment, where, since 1938, 724 participants and their 1,300 descendants have been studied to see what factors contributed to their well-being.

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