Other People’s Happiness is Not Your Responsibility (Not Even When It’s Your Spouse)

It’s not about being selfish, it’s about impossibility

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One of the biggest things I learned by going to a counselor was this — you can’t MAKE other people happy. You can twist yourself into a pretzel, you can be a slave or a doormat, you can spend a million bucks — whether the other…