Key To Happiness: Maintain Friendships
Channel: Working Mom Warrior
Date: 2020-03-02

What do you do when you want to see your friends, but you also want to hang out with your kids, clean your house, finish a work project, snuggle with your mate, and make progress on your New Year's goals (remember those)? If a friend invites you to meet, and you enjoy hanging out with them, I say go! Forget about the other stuff for a little while. 

Do you have a friend you miss seeing? What stops you from calling them and making plans, or at least having a FaceTime chat?

Even doctors say relationships have the MOST significant impact on our happiness in life.

“Our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health,” said Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School. “Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Our study has shown that the people who fared the best were the people who leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community,” Waldinger said about one of the world’s longest studies of adult life that started in 1938.
 
And if you're a working mom like me, you know those friendships often take the biggest hit when we get too busy with kids and work. Don't let old friends you care about slip away! Have your husband or family member watch your kids, or bring them with you, to make time to see your friends.

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