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How to Fight Smarter: Soften Your Start-Up

Ellie Lisitsa

Softening the start-up of your arguments and complaints is crucial to resolving relationship conflicts.

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Predicting Divorce From The First 3 Minutes of Conflict Discussion

Ellie Lisitsa

Drs. Carrère and Gottman found that the startup of the conflict discussion was key to predicting divorce or marital stability.

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Homework Assignment: How Marital Conflict Affects Children

Ellie Lisitsa

Learn what conflict does to kids and how you can show empathy by being the emotion coach your child needs.

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The Research: Patterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors Part II

Ellie Lisitsa

It is not the child’s temperament that predicts marital conflict, but rather the type of marital conflict that predicts a child’s temperament.

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The Research: Patterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors

Ellie Lisitsa

Parents whose conflicts are characterized by mutual hostility often produce children who are unable to wait their turn.

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Physiological Self-Soothing

Ellie Lisitsa

Try something that may feel totally foreign in the heights of your distress: breathe.

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The Research: Physiological and Affective Predictors of Change in Relationship Satisfaction Part II

Ellie Lisitsa

In relationships that are working well, the couple's interaction style is constructive, affirming, and enjoyable.

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The Research: Physiological and Affective Predictors of Change in Relationship Satisfaction

Ellie Lisitsa

What factors can impact relationship satisfaction? The Gottman Relationship Blog explores the research and what you can do.

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The Research: Predicting Divorce from an Oral History Interview Part II

Ellie Lisitsa

Both husbands' and wives' presence or lack of “we-ness” during an oral history interview is a strong indicator of whether a couple will divorce or not.

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