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Dating Your Wife with Kids Under Five

Tamara Patterson

Dating will not just keep you both close to each other, but its positive effects will model a strong and healthy relationship for your children, thus creating a happy home.

Noticing, Understanding, and Getting to the Root of Our Triggers

The Gottman Institute

As we practice noticing and understanding our overreactions, we become more attuned to the triggers that caused these reactions in us.

4 Simple Ways to Nurture Closeness in Your Family

Kelsey Down

Try incorporating these simple tips into your daily life to foster closeness among your family.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy Established as Evidence-Based Treatment for Same-Sex Couples

The Gottman Institute

This outcome study is the first of its kind, and it displays the strengths of same-sex relationships to the scientific community.

How to Repair the Little Things So They Don’t Become Big Things

The Gottman Institute

Happy couples repair, and they do so early and often.

August 2017

Allison Sowder

Check out what happened at The Gottman Institute this August!

Breaking the Pursue-Withdraw Pattern: An Interview with Scott R. Woolley, Ph.D.

Kyle Benson

The pursue-withdraw pattern is an extremely common cause of divorce. If left unresolved, it will continue into a second marriage and subsequent intimate relationships.

10 Habits to Shape a Kind, Well-Adjusted Child

Rebecca Eanes

The relationship that you have with your child is the single biggest influence on them. Your relationship sets an example for how relationships should be throughout the rest of their lives.

To the Couple With the Same Dreams but Different Timelines

David and Constantino Khalaf

Dreams transform with time, and we have to be willing to adapt along with them.

July 2017

The Gottman Institute

Read about all the exciting happenings at The Gottman Institute in July!

Marriage is Not a Big Thing, It’s a Million Little Things

Liz Higgins

By putting one foot in front of the other, you can create interactions of connection that lead to a relationship shaped by love, respect, and affirmation.

2 Biases That May Be Hurting Your Relationship

Jon Beaty

Dr. Gottman has identified five tools that couples can use as effective antidotes to confirmation bias and negativity bias in their relationships.

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