#10: Happiness is More Important
There are many things that we saw our Boomer parents do when we were children that we wouldn’t dare do as we approach adulthood. Not everything they ever did was bad, but the way they chose to live their lives wasn’t always the best thing for them or anyone else around them.
Why is it that every single Boomer thinks that it is better to be unhappy and miserable in a marriage as opposed to being single and fabulous as a divorced person? Sure, once upon a time, there might have been a reason as to why this wasn’t “good” for people to do, but that way of thinking is very, very old-fashioned.