Article: Married to a pessimist. (opposite outlooks on life in a marriage)

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Good Housekeeping
Article date:
June 1, 1998
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You're sunny, he's gloomy. You cope, he carps. (Or maybe it's the other way around!) How to live in harmony with your emotional opposite.

My husband and I share many things: a core set of values, a beautiful daughter, similar tastes in movies and food. What we do not share is a worldview. I see life as basically benign. Bad things could happen, I reason, but there's no way to guard against them, so you might as well enjoy the moment. My husband, on the other hand, is always prepared to find the cloud around the silver lining. If business is bad, it can only get worse. And if business is good, well naturally it can only get worse. He feels his job in life is to ...

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