Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Relationships. They're very important in our lives. We all have them, whether we get married,

friendships, family, relationships are just part of being

human.

So it's important for us to learn how to be happy in relationships, how to find happiness while we're in good relationships.

And what we're going to do, we're going to have a four-part series, four podcasts devoted to relationships

and exploring how we can be happy with our relationships.

In part one, this episode, we're going to explore on how to be happy being single, then we're going to look at how to find good relationships. Then

we're going to look at how to maintain good healthy relationships. And finally, we're going

to look at how to be happy when relationships end.

You may be wondering why Dr. Puff in this episode are you going to talk about being single?

If this is about relationships, how does being single have anything to do with being in a relationship?

Well, let me use an example to illustrate this point.

Why is being single so important?

When we were younger, we went to school,

and I'm sure the listeners of this podcast all went to high school,

and maybe you're going to high school right now.

But when we're in high school, if you remember,

we had different groups in schools.

There were the jocks, or the academics, or the people in band.

There were just different groups, and people tended to hang out with people of like mind, of like kind. But there were people who often

didn't feel very good about themselves, and it's almost as if they fell through the cracks

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