Students like it too, and have appeared with the Parrotts on The Today Show and other programs. Recently, a pioneering group of researchers studied the age-old mystery of what makes people happy. Their answer is not what you might expect. What appears at the top of the charts is not success, wealth, achievement, good looks, or any of those enviable assets. The clear winner is relationships.
Nothing reaches so deeply into the human personality, tugs so tightly, as relationship.
For one reason, it is only in the context of connection with others that our deepest needs can be met. Whether we like it or not, each of us has an unshakable dependence on others. Not long ago, we spent a Saturday evening on a radio talk show in Chicago. The show was an open line to much of the nation. The subject was relationships, and the calls ranged from questions and opinions about family and friends to sex and romance.