what is more important... happiness and contentment or money? Pl dont combine the 2?

Question

My husband says money is most important, everything else will follow and I think if you are happy with the minimum bare reqirement , money will not be that important.... I dont feel like running after money because u loose bigger happiness by doing that. Please give a serious answer .

Answer 1

Have you read the book
"Women are from Venus, and men are from mars"? Women we are emotional people, we look at things at an emotional level. Whereas men don't. Men look at money can solve most things. Example: If they BUY you something, you are suppose to be happy, but money can't buy you happiness. But women we feel like as long as our relationship is in tact with honesty, trust, respect and commitment, we can get through anything, with the minimum of money. Just enough to make sure responsibilities are met. Anything else, the real women can handle.

Answer 2

There was a seminar on happiness at school, and the speaker said a study was done and the results say that as long as you make enough money to cover your needed/basic living expenses, your happiness is the same as someone with a lot more money.

I was in Africa in July and we took a tour of a township (look up pictures, horrible horrible living situations), and I was struck by how happy everyone seemed considering the situations. The kids would run around laughing and playing, and the adults would talk together and laugh etc etc, and i'm sure they have plenty of worries, and I know they didn't know any different or anything, but they were happy in the most basic sense.

It was very encouraging.

Answer 3

Your husband is wrong when he says that "everything else will follow." I have known many people who are completely miserable and also have gobs of money. However, having enough money to make it so you are not constantly worried about how the next mortgage, rent, electric bill, etc will be paid, does go a long way toward making a person happy. We are happy in my family that we have enough money to meet the bills as well as life's complications (i.e. drier on the fritz, car won't start, etc). There's enough left over for some nice, but not extravagant, vacations. My husband brings home the money. I do not work outside the home. If I did, we could go on much more extravagant vacations, but that's not important to us. Being a family, having someone at home to make the home comfortable and nice, being there for our children, that is what is important to us. Someone needs to be at home when teenagers return from school in the afternoon. Someone needs to know where they are, what they're doing, and who they are doing it with. If we fail at raising our children, nothing else really matters, money included.

Answer 4

twinkle: A good question ! Firstly; money IS important in a marriage BUT it is not THE thing ! When you incorporate money into your value system as being the "all in all", you then begin to value other things LESS. Your time is all taken up with chasing the almighty dollar! ... and you know ? ... In the end of it all, you still won't have enough ! Take the recent hike in housing prices. A lot of people were dumping their money into real estate and now, are stuck with homes they can't sell because they are asking too much. Housing prices are dropping and these people will take a hugh loss !!! Contentment is happiness !!! You don't have the head aches that money chasers have - believe me. My cousin had his own business ... made a fortune ( he was a millionaire), he came to visit me last summer and was feeling sick. He went to the Doctor and was diagnosed with cancer. He died 3 months later. He told me, prior to his death, that he wishes he would of taken time for his wife and family instead of working 16 hour days. The money didn't make him happy nor did he take it with him. He told me that having lots of money isn't cracked up to what people think. He would have done better retiring earlier and spending the fruits of his labours ($) ... he cried when he realized that he had be chasing the wind.

Answer 5

Happiness and contentment are priceless. So much more important than money. Money does not change anyone. If you are unhappy poor you will be unhappy if you come into money. If you are a jerk to people when you are poor you will be a jerk to people when you are rich... to find happiness and peace of mind in any walk of life, now that is a gift.

Answer 6

Money is more important because you can make yourself happy but without money, living in a hovel with no food and no clothes...its kinda hard to make yourself happy. So money is more important, it lets everything follow provided that you don't die for it and consider it the end all of everything.

Answer 7

I think happiness because if you are happy with what you have and are in a good relationship with someone who you love and loves you money is no big deal and you will have a more fulfilled life because you are happy in your life and thats whats most important

Answer 8

actual now i'm content and satisfied and particular to stay that way something of my existence. in case you ask this question in 3 extra hours whilst i'm freezing my backside off in Las Padres wooded area I basically could supply you a distinctive answer. in the long-term contentment.

Answer 9

Money can't buy happiness.......I would rather be happy and content than have money...Look at all the celebrities in the world they have tons of money and they still aren't happy...

Answer 10

Happiness is so much more important than money. I know so many unhappy millionaires, and so many happy poor college students.
If you're really good, you get rich young and use it to pursue happiness-inducing pleasures.