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Happiness and Relationships

One of the greatest questions that humans have, throughout time, asked is: Where does happiness come from? What is that truly makes people happy? Happiness is, after all, something, that most of us, if not all of us strive for. We all want to be happy now and it is something we all hope for in the future - but just what is happiness? And how do you get it?

If you think about it, almost, if everything you do is motivated by the desire to be happy - the new car you buy, the bigger house you buy, the latest fashion trend you follow, that holiday you take, the promotion you go for, the places you hang out, the people you hang out with, the things you do in our free time, the cosmetic products you buy - all of these are really a means to an end - of being and feeling happy.

The self-help market and the consumer market capitalise on your quest and longing for happiness. Marketing is based on telling you what you need to be happy (create the need) and then, presto they provide the product (the means) that will ultimately bring you happiness (the end). That's why advertising is so powerful. You buy the products, the experiences and the images in the hopes that you will be happy. And advertising must work - or hundreds and thousands of pounds would not be spent on it year after year.

So gentlemen, if you want to be happy - then you know what you need - you need to be a babe magnet!

How Do You Find Your Ideal Partner?

"How do you predict who you will spend the rest of your life with," was the burning question Dawn Porter, a journalist from London was asking herself.  Dawn, 28, who featured in this BBC programme on Thursday night (6th March) , had not been in a serious relationship for the past four years and was concerned that her ideal relationship had not yet materialised.  She had just come from a meeting  with her relationship coach. 

At the end of their conversation, Michael, Dawn's relationship coach, suggested that Dawn had absolutely no clue as to what kind of man she really wanted and so he left her with the task of 'designing her ideal man.'

The rest of the programme found Dawn defining her ideal man and then creating a series of 'scientific' tests to assess her candidates against the checklist she had created. 

Dawn's criteria for her ideal man included five criteria:  his looks, his intelligence, how he smelled, how well he danced and having great sex.   

After undergoing a series of tests and being scored for each test, three men with the overall top three scores were announced as semi finalists and then finally the man with the overall highest score was named the 'winner' and Dawn and Jason lived happily ever after...

Well that was how the story was supposed to end but unfortunately, for Dawn, it didn't end that way.