Happy Relationship Is Worth $105,000

Liz and I were talking about a 20 year study that, among other things, concluded that a good relationship was the happiness equivalent of an extra $105,000 annually.

For me, it's a little weird to put a dollar value on that anyway, but then a question popped into my head. Is that $105,000 New Jersey money or is that some national figure? If it's a national figure, then that's not a lot of happiness here in the Garden state.

Here in New Jersey we have other names for $105,000...names like toll money...or lunch money...or one month of gas for the car. $105,000 sounds more like our gas and electric bills this winter than happiness.

I get what they're trying to do. They're trying to say that a good relationship is valuable, and of course it is. But if they want to impress us here in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, they may want to adjust that figure to actual New Jersey dollars.