Gretchen Rubin

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Isn't this one of the great challenges of parenthood? This paradox puzzled me for such a long time because I was thinking... I love my daughters with all my heart. I think they are perfect just as they are. And I push and I prod them to improve. How can both be true? And then I realized both are true. Love is unconditional and love is demanding.

Isn't this one of the great challenges of parenthood? This paradox puzzled me for such a long time because I was thinking... I love my daughters with all my heart. I think they are perfect just as they are. And I push and I prod them to improve. How can both be true? And then I realized both are true. Love is unconditional and love is demanding.

Isn't this one of the great challenges of parenthood? This paradox puzzled me for such a long time because I was thinking... I love my daughters with all my heart. I think they are perfect just as they are. And I push and I prod them to improve. How can both be true? And then I realized both are true. Love is unconditional and love is demanding.

Yeah. Often aphorisms and secrets of adulthood are expressed in paradox because it's a way, it captures our attention. There's often a great truth in paradox. In fact, one of the secrets of adulthood is the opposite of a profound truth is also true. So love is unconditional and love is demanding.

Yeah. Often aphorisms and secrets of adulthood are expressed in paradox because it's a way, it captures our attention. There's often a great truth in paradox. In fact, one of the secrets of adulthood is the opposite of a profound truth is also true. So love is unconditional and love is demanding.

Yeah. Often aphorisms and secrets of adulthood are expressed in paradox because it's a way, it captures our attention. There's often a great truth in paradox. In fact, one of the secrets of adulthood is the opposite of a profound truth is also true. So love is unconditional and love is demanding.

I think I said it all. Yeah. We care for many people we don't particularly care for.

I think I said it all. Yeah. We care for many people we don't particularly care for.

I think I said it all. Yeah. We care for many people we don't particularly care for.

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Well, I would say as somebody who spends a lot of time exploring happiness, I will say that one of the biggest happiness challenges that I hear over and over is the difficulty of making friendships and sustaining friendships as adults. Partly because it can be hard to make new friends. Let's say you move to a new city.

Well, I would say as somebody who spends a lot of time exploring happiness, I will say that one of the biggest happiness challenges that I hear over and over is the difficulty of making friendships and sustaining friendships as adults. Partly because it can be hard to make new friends. Let's say you move to a new city.

Well, I would say as somebody who spends a lot of time exploring happiness, I will say that one of the biggest happiness challenges that I hear over and over is the difficulty of making friendships and sustaining friendships as adults. Partly because it can be hard to make new friends. Let's say you move to a new city.

Or it can be hard, even if you have friends, to keep up with friends because friends take time and energy. That's the truth of it. And so one of the things that I've written about many, many times in different ways is like, how might you do that? And like one thing I am a huge fan of is to join or start a group.

Or it can be hard, even if you have friends, to keep up with friends because friends take time and energy. That's the truth of it. And so one of the things that I've written about many, many times in different ways is like, how might you do that? And like one thing I am a huge fan of is to join or start a group.