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How To Make Your Relationship Amazing: 6 Secrets From The Top Marriage Researcher
Everybody asks how you got together. Nobody asks how you stayed together. You get all kinds of relationship advice but it's usually worth as much as the fortune cookie paper it's printed on. Romance novels, self-help gurus and your aunt Margaret who still quotes "When Harry Met Sally." Nobody has a…
18 minutes
The 4 Most Common Relationship Problems — And How To Fix Them
lationship problems. Everybody has them. And sometimes you have them over and over and over. Most of the people giving advice don't know the research. So where are the real answers? I decided to call an expert: Dr. John Gottman. You might remember him as the researcher in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink who, after just a few minutes, could predict whether a couple would end up divorced. John is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and co-founder of the Gottman Institute. He's published…
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What are the four things that kill relationships?
hn Gottman can listen to a couple for 5 minutes and determine, with 91% accuracy, whether they'll divorce. He was featured in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink. Gottman's researched marriage for over 40 years and couples that attend his workshops have half the relapse rate that standard therapy provides. His book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is excellent and rich with information. In it he debunks a lot of myths about marriage, explains why marriages go bad and what can be done about…
3 minutes
This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day
"Third year of the pandemic" used to be a phrase reserved for science fiction novels. Maddeningly, COVID may be going from historical “event” to “era.” I don’t blame you if your optimism has stretch marks and you’re feeling phantom pain where your hope used to be. We’re all wishing life would…
11 minutes
This Is How To Never Be Bored Again: 4 Secrets From Research
Fixing the plumbing on a toilet is far from exciting. But Chris didn’t mind... But that’s probably because he was in outer space. It’s not a stretch to assume common household chores take on another level of interestingness when you’re on a space station. And so Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian…
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