Arthur C. Brooks offers four practices for stronger marriages: do fun things together and skip rehashing complaints, meditate or pray as a couple, maintain eye contact during conversations, and keep physical touch frequent. Women release three times more oxytocin from eye contact, he notes.
Here's how you fix every marriage. You do four things. Number one, you have more fun together as opposed to rehearsing grievance. More fun, less grievance therapy is like grievance, grievance, grievance. Have more fun together. Second is pray together. If you get married, the goal is to fuse your right hemispheres. The best way to do that is by meditating together Is by praying together is by doing right hemisphere activity together. The third protocol is to make eye contact whenever you talk. Never be talking without making eye contact. Way more important for your wife than it is for you. Way more important because she gets three times as much oxytocin, which means she's better at bonding, but it also means that she's better at starving when she's not getting enough oxytocin. And last but not least is remember abt always be touching. Always be touching. Always be touching. More important for men than for women. As a matter of fact. That's why when you're with your beloved and she hooks her arm into your arm while you're walking down the street, you're like, I'm big and strong. Why.
