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Dr. Gottman’s 3 Skills (and 1 Rule!) for Intimate Conversation

Ellie Lisitsa

Protect your relationships from unnecessary stressors and weather the storms that come by making emotional connection a priority.

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Homework Assignment: Six Seconds to Happy Couplehood!

Ellie Lisitsa

Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we share an article written by Theo Pauline Nestor of Match.com that offers to help you "find out how just a few minutes a day doing little things differently — like saying 'hello,' 'goodbye' and sharing a kiss — can change the course of your relationship for the better."

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Homework Assignment: Learn To Trust Yourself

Ellie Lisitsa

Trusting our partners is not the same thing as giving up all control.

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How To Remove Fairytale Logic From Your Sound Relationship House

Ellie Lisitsa

Fairytale stories give us faulty logic about relationships. It's not about finding purpose in someone else. It's about loving yourself.

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Creating A Culture of Appreciation

The Gottman Institute

Follow this exercise to learn how to appreciate one another.

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The Importance Of Integrity

Nate Bagley

Integrity is the true source of deep love, adventure, and even self-confidence.

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Homework Assignment: The Gottman Island Survival Game

Ellie Lisitsa

Many couples fail to make headway on solvable problems because they don't know how to compromise. To learn compromise, you must accept influence.

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Imagination and Surprisology

Ellie Lisitsa

Tania Luna shares her experience of immigrating to the United States from Ukraine as a little girl.

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Homework Assignment: Have A Bit Of Fun

The Gottman Institute

Taking joy and laughter seriously

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Humor: How To Be Mindful

Ellie Lisitsa

Mindlessness is often the result of carelessness, not malice.

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Using Humor to Build Relationships

Ellie Lisitsa

Humor is pretty complicated, and if we want to use it in a way that builds and maintains healthy, loving, and strong connections, we must be mindful.

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