«But what happens over time is that your brain starts looking for reasons for your scores and comparing things that add to or
detract from your happiness.
«There has been a lot of research looking at whether and how income makes people happy in life, but few studies have examined whether debt can
detract from happiness.
You learn to take responsibility for your emotions and to communicate to your dating partner about where your emotions are coming from and how he or she can help you in such a way that it doesn't
detract from their happiness.
Debt can cause anxiety that
detracts from happiness.
A big challenge for any relationship is recognizing if it's contributing to or
detracting from your happiness, and making the difficult decision to either stay the course or call it quits.
Additional stresses, especially financial ones, will
detract from your happiness.
Not exact matches
The unhappiness of the others
detracts from one's
happiness.
and Bill Hader (Superbad) provide some choice comic infusion) that enhance the comedic mix in ways that don't
detract from the protagonist's search for inner
happiness.
Lastly, having children may
detract from parental
happiness insofar as having children decreases the amount of satisfaction and time that romantic partners have for one another once they have children.3
Think about your lifestyle and what encourages (or
detracts from) your
happiness.