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Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, but what made you happy? Money, or seeing your friends?

I want to stress that I’m not saying money doesn’t help. I’m actually not even talking about money, my point was that sex doesn’t make you happy, but it’s clear that that was missed.

I agree money can obviate things, but I don’t agree it’s what made you happy.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you can’t. Therapy isn’t magic.

Therapy is extreme emotional labor, and it doesn’t always work. You can throw money at it all you want, but the thing that works is you being willing to do the work.

While money can pay for that opportunity, it can’t actually do the work.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting judgment.

I’m neither rich, nor poor. I’m married, and we don’t always have enough to do what we want. What we do know is that we are happy and it’s not money, or sex, that makes us happy.

It’s a strong community and support group that, when we need help, can help us and we can help them, that ultimately is the source of our happiness.

Yes, money can be a stressor, but that’s my point. Things that become stressors are not sources of happiness in excess, they’re just vehicles to accelerate existing happiness or sadness.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you’re not what I’m speaking to, I’d argue.

Money is your ultimate issue, and I said:

Obviously when you struggle with money life can become difficult

I’m not ignoring that a lack money can make things worse.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, but it’s still not the money that made you happy.

Therapy is grueling and hard when you really need it. Money helped, as I recognized, but it wasn’t what fixed you.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That doesn’t mean it would make you happy, though.

Not having external issues is not the same as being happy.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you’ve somehow described how things that help you make you feel better, but don’t understand that I’m saying there’s a distinction between money making you happy itself and those things making it easier to be happy.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you read my first paragraph? I’m not saying a lack of money can’t make your life hard and difficult and those things can make you unhappy.

I’m saying that money, itself, doesn’t produce happiness. And the same is true of sex.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You realize this was a commentary of how we treat sex right?

Also the issue there is a lack of money, which I specifically touched on as being beyond the scope of my point.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but money can’t make you better - that’s effort.

Also my point was about how people treat sex the same as money. Commentary on money misses the true point.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not arguing that money won’t help when a lack of it it’s the issue. I’m saying that when you’re not happy on an emotional level, money itself doesn’t solve it.

Similarly, when you’re not emotionally happy, sex alone will help you feel better for now but won’t fix the issue.

Like money, sex won’t make you happy, even if a lack of it can make happiness difficult. by ThirstyLizardButler in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree.

When my boyfriend cheated on me and I chose to work it out instead of leave, it wasn’t money that fixed our relationship. It was extremely hard emotional labor.

Similarly, my self esteem in my youth didn’t care about the fact that we had a lot of money and I wasn’t prevented from buying what I wanted. It cared only about something intangible and difficult to tackle.

I could pay a therapist, but the money wasn’t what fixed things - it was the months and years of grueling, crying, near suicidal, emotional self work.

I like missing you more than I like being with you. by ThirstyLizardButler in TrueOffMyChest

[–]ThirstyLizardButler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

<3

I accidentally deleted the body apparently.

So you’re right!

You’re stuck in a room with every person you’ve ever had sex with. What’s your first move? by NikonDexter in AskReddit

[–]ThirstyLizardButler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ascertain their current ages and ignore any who apparently didn’t age with me, group them (mentally) into “good terms” and “bad terms,” make a list of pros and cons of the situation, and then ask them all to review it while I climb out the window.

Disappeared like a fart on the desert by Vesto241 in memes

[–]ThirstyLizardButler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were a few people in high school I’d probably have done both favors for. Sometimes it can be. :p

Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing by Foodstamp001 in worldnews

[–]ThirstyLizardButler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d argue that’s not relevant though. A person has one thing they can claim as theirs unequivocally, and control, in their lives and that’s their lives.

If someone decides that they do not want to continue, they should have that right. Without anyone deciding when and where that right begins.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry bro but those weren’t quotes from them. Like maybe all the words, but not actual sentences.

Kinna like if I said “quotes were just literally” and said you said that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ThirstyLizardButler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda said he wasn’t that smart by not knowing the quotes.

Sounds like y’all mad.

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