Exploring the Relationship Between Love and Wealth
The dynamics between love and wealth can enhance happiness and financial well-being. In an 80-year-long study, researchers at Harvard concluded that “close friendships, more than money, fame, or even your cholesterol level, are connected to keeping people happy and healthy in the long term.”
Simply put: in all your getting, get love!
Are you burning the midnight oil to keep up with your career? Travel? Meetings? Pressure? Not enough time for romance? Or friends?
You could defend yourself and say this is how things are today. Or you can look at a more fulfilling way to spend your life.
It might be radical for you to think in terms of starting a new career path, moving to a different firm, or moving across the country! However, this is exactly what might be needed if you want to stay happy and healthy, as the Harvard researchers discovered.
Here are the key points from the Harvard study:
- Love shields against alienation.
This fosters a sense of security and belonging in a community at work or home, and in your friendships.
- Love and marriage significantly boost financial prosperity.
This makes sense. What could be healthier than to have someone to share your life, dreams, disappointments, trials, and your love with? Life is a journey, and your trip will be more fulfilling if you pay attention to your home life.
- Transparent communication is vital for balancing love and financial compatibility.
Transparency such as honesty, caring, tenderness, and sharing of mutual goals for each other and your family.
Love Is a Shield Against Alienation
Who hasn’t felt alienated? It’s part of the human experience. We suffer a myriad of setbacks imposed by others, or we deal with conditions we have no control over.
Alienation can come in many forms, such as rejection by the boss or by a ‘team’ at work to which you have submitted your proposals. It can come when you just don’t seem to click with the ‘in’ group, either socially or at work. You can feel it, they can feel it, you know it, and they do also.
But sometimes, we are stuck where we are until we figure out a better place for ourselves.
Through friendships and romantic relationships, you create a barrier against alienation, hurt, and anger. You can proceed with life and find new pathways instead of dwelling on the hurt. Reaching out and spending more time with those you love and who love you helps you through the pain. Love is the great healer.
Step into the space and place where you are loved and appreciated, and then look at the issues of alienation as a life experience, not a permanent condition.
Love and Financial Health
Harvard Professor Jay Zagorsky's research shows that “married individuals tend to accumulate nearly double the wealth of their unmarried counterparts. The net worth of married individuals surpasses that of singles by an astonishing 77 percent.”
This is an astonishing number. Love, marriage, and successful careers go hand in hand. Not only are they a natural evolution of love and caring for another person, but they are essential together for prosperity at the highest level for most people.
The length of a marriage or partnership also plays a role in the financial health of the family. The longer the term of the partnership, the more time there is to build financial wealth and health.
Transparency
Build a life of love and friendship on honesty and joint goal-building. It is not just about you but also about your loved ones and the role they play in your life.
Humans are not built to be perfect, so true relationships require some work and attention. But finding a partner to sustain you in the good times and the bad is sometimes exactly what you need to fulfill your dreams!
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