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Show Happiness Goal For Everyone in Marriage we would choose each other again. Five. We consider our marriage to be definitely happier than the average. I've found that people I've counseled with marital problems are unhappy because they expect too much with too little effort. Swedish marriage counselor, George Karlsson, said that by Dr. M. Ford McBride "So they were married and lived happily hap-pily ever' after." This isn't just the fanciful ending of most fairy tales. Happiness has always been the great goal that people have hoped to achieve in marriage. If that is true, why do so many people fail to find the happiness they seek? This question can be answered bv trying unhappiness in marriage is the difference dif-ference between what you want and what you get. Naturally, therefore, the more you demand the harder you will be to please. Getting back to the original question about achieving happiness in marriage, Victor Hugo summed it up well when he said, "The supreme happiness in marriage is the conviction convic-tion that we are loved." Dr. McBride can be seen every Tuesday on Channell 1 1 's Newsroom at 6 p.m. If you have a question or topic you would like Dr. McBride to discuss in his column, write; Dr. M. Ford McBride, 1161 East 300 North, Provo, Utah 84601. to understand the dynamics of the husband-wife relation-shop. relation-shop. In an attempt to understand un-derstand the relationships relation-ships between husband and wife, psychologist Lewis Terman carefully studied 2,500 married people to find out what made some happy and others unhappy. He found that most happily hap-pily married couples are those who can say: One. We are good companions and have few conflicts. Two. We resolve our disagreements by mutual adjustment. Three. We find little or nothing in marriage to complain of. Four. We don't regret the choice we made, and |