The Happiness Plan with Sarah Treleaven and
Astrid Van Den Broek
Making everyday extraordinary
How one woman lost her job, got divorced and found happiness
- Sat Oct 01 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
April of 2009 was a pivotal month for Robin Mather. Within a week, the Chicago Tribune food writer was hit with a wicked one-two punch. One, her husband of 12 years wanted a divorce. Two, she was being laid off. And while in her new book, The Feast Nearby, in which she shares how she ultimately learned to land on her feet again and live on $40 a week, her story had me wondering: how do you find happiness when the ground just shifts beneath your life like that?
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Should you plan for unhappiness in marriage?
- Fri Aug 19 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Love is notoriously blind, and when you're really happy with someone it can be hard to see the possibility of the bloom falling off the rose. This is one of the reasons that the introduction of a prenuptial agreement can be so jarring.
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Finding happines inside (and outside) the white picket fence
- Fri May 20 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Kyran Pittman met her second husband online while still married to her first, and she ended up moving to Little Rock, Arkansas for him and raising three sons behind a white picket fence - a long way away from where she began. Here, the author of Planting Dandelions, explains how she ended up there, and why it makes her happy.
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Is it possible to have a happy divorce?
- Mon Dec 20 2010
- Sarah Treleaven
Will maintaining your dignity while breaking up a marriage help make you happy? Taking the high road is the family-friendly way to go and the benefits are too numerous to quantify. The high road is ultimately a way of life.
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