. LOVING RELATIONSHIPS T he third ingredient of success is loving relationships. These are relationships with the people you love and care about, and the people who love and care about you. They are the real measure of how well you are doing as a human being. Most of your happiness and unhappiness in life comes from your relationships with others, and it is your relationships with others that make you truly human. A key quality of the fully functioning person is that he or she has the ability to enter into and maintain long-term friendships and intimate relationships with other people. The very essence of your personality is demonstrated in the way you get along with others, and the way they get along with you. At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationships by one simple test: laughter. How much two people, or a family, laugh together is the surest single measure of how well things are going. When a relationship is truly happy, people laugh a lot when they’re together. And when a relationship turns sour, the very first thing that goes is the laughter.

*Француженка после турпоездки по России собирается уезжать домой, а ей и говорят типа давай на «посошок» выпьем. В общем, бахнули как надо, и она отрубилась. Просыпается на утро, все вокруг голые, до самолета 2 часа. Прилетела она домой. Давай с мужем по словарям слово «посошок» искать. Искали, искали нет нигде. Только в одном словаре нашли слово «посох» – палка в дорогу.
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Avoid wasting time criticizing what you’ve done wrong. This only adds emotional trauma to an already confused mental and physical state. Instead, point yourself toward the correct behavior.

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“Скупость сушит душу, а расточительность топит ее” (А. Конан Дойл).