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It seems that women are less forgiving than men.

frequency of defections on up to 10 per cent of interactions will have little or no effect on the average number of friends an individual will have; frequencies greater than 10 per cent will have a small effect on the overall number of friends, but will mainly reduce the number of strong and medium ties,

The success or failure of a couple’s repair attempts is one of the primary factors in whether their marriage is likely to flourish or flounder.

In addition to everything else he accomplished, John von Neumann is also the father of game theory. After finishing his day job on the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Oskar Morgenstern to publish Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944. The Boston Public Library’s list of the “100 Most Influential Books of the Century” includes Theory

A marriage’s meltdown can be predicted, then, by habitual harsh start-up and frequent flooding brought on by the relentless presence of the four horsemen during disagreements. Although each of these factors alone can predict a divorce, they usually coexist in an unhappy marriage.

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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.

The notion that you can save your relationship just by learning to communicate more sensitively is probably the most widely held misconception about happy marriages—but it’s hardly the only one. Over the years, I’ve found many other myths that are not only false but potentially destructive. They are dangerous because they can lead couples down the

The answer turned out to be five mindstates on average. Five mindstates would be the equivalent of being able to think your way through a sentence like this: I believe that you wonder whether Jim expects that Jemina intends to ask Sally whether she is in love with Fred.