Happy Life, Happy Life, and If Mama Ain’t Happy, Ain’t Nobody Happy

[DISCLAIMER]

When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I teach people about the ABC model of self-disturbance (how people upset themselves through use of irrational beliefs). Now, I’ll address a finer point of this psychotherapeutic model of wellness.

For context, REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate how when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. That negative outcome is disturbance.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive Beliefs, think of the acronym GLAD.

It’s worth noting that the two forms of should, must, and ought-type demands with which people most often self-disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional should beliefs. Generally speaking, these serve as rigid commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Significantly, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of disturbance.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

Noteworthy, with my approach to care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I invite people to consider mental scripts which are rational (in accordance with both logic and reason) – especially regarding events which correlate with strong feelings.

Logic is the interrelation or sequence of facts when seen as inevitable or predictable, and reason is a statement offered in explanation or justification. As such, I often use syllogisms (deductive schemes of formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion).

Importantly, a syllogistic statement, proposition, or belief may be logical while simultaneously unreasonable. In this case, even though the logic consequentially follows (the conclusion is a necessary and inevitable result of previous facts or premises), it’s considered irrational.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Thus, rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

As well, a rigid form of irrational belief results in self-disturbance (e.g., rage) while a flexible form of rational belief results in self-distress (e.g., righteous indignation). Ergo, what one thinks, feels (i.e., emotions and sensations), and behaves reveals what type of beliefs are being used.

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Remarkably, natural forms of distress are tolerable (e.g., mild anxiousness, sorrow, frustration, annoyance, disappointment, etc.). Even though unnatural forms of disturbance are also tolerable (e.g., enragement), my approach to REBT seeks the outcome which is more likely to be endured.

Now, I offer a finer point of understanding in regard to the ABC model. In particular, I invite you to consider use of a disjunctive syllogism—a conditional form (rational or irrational) that uses a disjunction with two alternatives (disjuncts), eliminating one, and forcing the conclusion.

Form –

Either p, or q; not p; therefore, q.

Example –

Major premise: Either you’ll practice REBT, or you’ll continue self-distressing or self-disturbing.

Minor premise: You won’t practice REBT.

Conclusion: Therefore, you’ll continue self-distressing or self-disturbing.

Provided that you comprehend how disjunction may impact beliefs, I now offer a final disjunctive syllogistic assumption that I often heard when growing up. Now, on the album Rebirth of the Cool (2020), by production team Str8 Bangaz, is the track “Hannibal’s Wife”.

Featuring rapper Hus KingPin and a sample of Doris & Kelley’s song “You Don’t Have to Worry” (1967), the outro lyrics state, “Happy wife, happy life.” For context, the term happy regards enjoying or characterized by well-being and contentment. Now, let’s examine the lyrics:

Form –

Either p, or q; not p; therefore, q.

Example –

Either I’ll have a happy wife (p), or I won’t have a happy life (q). I don’t have a happy wife (p). Therefore, I won’t have a happy life (q).

When hearing this relatively common expression throughout my youth and early adulthood, I didn’t think critically of it. Then, years after my divorce, I heard men’s rights activists, specifically Paul Elam and Tom Golden, critique the phrase.

Suppose that irrespective of my actions, my wife wasn’t happy when I was married. Using the aforementioned disjunctive syllogistic belief, I would’ve been to blame for her unhappiness and my unhappy life which was predicated on her mood. Regarding this matter, one source states:

Some might argue “happy wife, happy life” is just about loving gestures—giving her the bigger closet, letting her pick the movie. But the phrase rarely conveys that kind of joyful sacrifice. More often, it suggests reluctant compliance: Just say yes and avoid conflict.

This creates a distorted dynamic. The wife becomes more dominant—not necessarily through strength or virtue but often through emotional or sexual control [i.e., influence], anger, or manipulation.

The husband, rather than stepping up, disengages. She gets her way but loses his heart. He keeps the peace but forfeits respect […] Over time, this dynamic can breed resentment and leave them both feeling unsatisfied and longing for a genuine partnership. A strong marriage isn’t about power struggles.

When I provided couples counseling services (no more days like those!), I stressed the importance of intimate partners disabusing themselves of rhetoric, such as “happy wife, happy life.” I’ll leave it to your imagination as to which sex it was that often rejected my approach.

In any event, the takeaway herein is relatively simple. The phrase “happy wife, happy wife” serves as an unfavorable conditional belief (i.e., either one’s wife must be happy, or one won’t experience happiness in life). Arguably, this is not a perspective used by healthy couples.

Similarly, the phrase I also heard when growing up, “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” is an irrational assumption that uses an unproductive conditional belief. It functions by the same disjunction as “happy wife, happy life.” Ultimately, these phrases are arguably unhealthy.

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help you understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As the world’s foremost hip hop-influenced REBT psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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