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The purpose of this study is to explore the dual-earner couple’s everyday life and happiness by means of Experience Sampling Method. In this study, 91 dual-earner couples with children for 5 days recording their thoughts about what they were doing to gather their emotional experiences in six areas of daily life including paid work, household work, caretaking of children, leisure activities, individual maintenance, and others. A total number of 5,147 data samples were gathered, and for the purpose of the study, flow experiences were mainly analyzed. The main findings are as follows. First, emotional experiences of the participants, identified in the three-channel flow model, differed according to gender. Second, the rate of flow experience to the holistic emotional experience was positively correlated with participants’ overall happiness. Third, results from the regression analysis recognized gender differences in areas of flow experiences that affect happiness.