How to predict the success of your relationship with @TheGottmanInstitute

The first 3 minutes of a conflict conversation predicts not only how the rest of the conversation will go, it also predicts how the rest of the relationship will go 6 years down the road.

Doctors Julie and John Gottman of the Gottman Institute have conducted breakthrough research on thousands of couples over 5 decades. They have developed a clinical methodology for treating couples that is research-based.

69% of all the conflicts that couples to have in a relationship are perpetual. Why is that?

A lot of people will just say, okay, let's not talk about this anymore, and they shut everything down. That doesn't work.

During conflict, couples who exhibit these 4 key behaviors, they were likely to split.

The successful couples do something very different. What they do is