If you believe the research (and I do), money and acquiring doesn’t make us happy. What does?Gretchen Rubin spent a year researching what makes us happy, her work is published in her blog the Happiness Project, and her book of the same name. On the day after Valentine’ Day I am reflecting on her 12th commandment of her personal guide for happiness: There is only love…

I need to balance that with what the President of the Association for Psychological Science in America Professor John Cacioppo, observes in his new book, Loneliness: at any moment, one in five Americans, or 60 million people, feel so isolated they are deeply unhappy.

Maybe there is only love and at the same time it is only part of the story.