Abandoning your family does generally not sound like a recipe for happiness to me, given a somewhat healthy relationship.
If you think doing hard things is good and fulfilling, maybe that's what is happiness to you.
If you think doing hard things is good and fulfilling, maybe that's what is happiness to you.
Having a family is hard. For instance, people with children are consistently less "happy" than their childless peers, yet many choose to have children knowing that. If you optimize for happiness you may be optimizing for selfish empty shallow existence. I'm sure you can take a drug to make you "happy" but that seems foolish.
it does
And it's certainly not fulfilling. It's typically surface level feeling of satisfaction. Were happy playing mindless videogames
But I guess everyone is entitled to their own definition