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The author says marriage is good and bad depending on if the marriage is good or bad. A happy marriage makes you happy, an unhappy marriage can make you very unhappy. Heer plays a by to show that people are far more resilient than we think they are when it comes to dealing with negative things in their lives. The only thing i've seen that produces a permanent denigration in happiness is divorce.

Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, which has sold over half a million copies. Eric is also a sought-after speaker, having given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Olympic Training Center.

Eric's newest book, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong, is available now!

Learn more about Eric at bakadesuyo.com.

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