MARRIAGE WON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY
"Most newlyweds experience a brief emotional bounce after their wedding, but they eventually return to the same outlook they had on life before they tied the knot, according to a study released Sunday." Link to Reuters story OR Link to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 13 page article itself (.pdf file)

Marriage is wonderful (and in my experience more wonderful every year!) but you can't count on marriage to be the primary source of contentment and happiness in life. I suspect that this is a hard pill to swallow for a lot of 20-somethings who have an over-romanticized understanding of marriage and see it has the one thing that is really going to fulfill their lives. The problem, then, is that no one is "right enough" to live up to this kind of expectation, IMPO.

So what then is the source of life satisfaction, peace, and joy?