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Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
One important message of these findings is that it is not wise to stay in a bad marriage for the sake of your children. It is clearly harmful to raise kids in a home that is consumed by hostility. A peaceful divorce is preferable to endless marital warfare. Unfortunately, many divorces are not peaceful. Too often there is mutual enmity between the
... See moreJohn Gottman • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. —Leo Tolstoy, writer
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Marital happiness = the frequency of lovemaking − the frequency of quarreling
Bruce Feiler • The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
most fights are really protests over emotional disconnection.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
we think we are alike in significant ways, and when that does not check out, we object to our partners, or the world, being different from how we see it.
Helen LaKelly Hunt • Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition
In relationships, you get what you tolerate.