My friend, Magrey, just alerted me to a recent study which examined the dollar value of the emotional effects of life events such as marriage, home purchase, child birth, and divorce. Positive dollar amounts indicated “psychic benefits”; negative dollar amounts showed “psychic costs.”
The study found:
• A man getting married feels like he just received $32,000. To women, it only feels like $15,600.
• Divorce feels like a $110,000 loss to a man, but only a $9,000 loss to a woman.
• The death of a loved one feels like a $130,900 loss to a woman, and a whopping $627,300 deficit to a man.
• And moving into a new home? A positive $2,600 for a woman, but a negative $16,000 to a man.
Do any of the numbers surprise you?
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