Did you know? Expressing and perceiving gratitude can benefit personal relationships
Robert Waldinger’s study on adult development describes how our relationships are the biggest predictor of happiness and health. Researchers found that expressing and perceiving gratitude helps protect relationships from the adverse effects of conflicts.
By making us feel happy, satisfied, and encouraging the act of ‘paying it forward,’ gratitude strengthens our relationships and our lives on many levels.
Through strengthened relationships, we find greater meaning, depth in affection and overall joy from the littlest of things—a compliment, a gesture—to the biggest of things—our overall satisfaction, optimism, attitude and approach to living day-in and day-out.