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Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Love Lab couples for decades, and in the end watched, recorded, and learned from over 3,000 relationships.
Doug Abrams • Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
It’s a biological fact: men are more easily overwhelmed by marital conflict…
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John Gottman • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
There’s an old saying in family therapy that most couples have the same fight over forty years. Why? Because the same parts of each of them are fighting the same caricatures of their partners. I call these caricatures each partner’s core negative image of the other.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
According to one family friend, after their last child was born in 1932, Rose declared, “No more sex,” and moved into a separate bedroom. But even if Rose had not denied him her favors, Joe would have been a compulsive philanderer. For someone who needed to win, win, win, who could never be content with great success in one arena, who spent his lif
... See moreOnce your marriage gets “set” at a high degree of positivity, it will take far more negativity to harm your relationship than if your “set point” were lower. And if your relationship becomes overwhelmingly negative, it will be more difficult to repair.