The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

oscillating family narrative.

Marital happiness = the frequency of lovemaking − the frequency of quarreling

resilience.

‘preserve the core/stimulate progress.’

Davis has certain basic rules he tells couples:

The master list contained nine items:

“What works about the family meeting,” he said, “is that it’s a regularly scheduled time to draw attention to specific behaviors. If you don’t have a safe environment to discuss problems, any plan to improve your family will go nowhere.”

Bloom said children go through

“even the good parts.”