Dr. Gottman, psychologist: “If there is criticism, contempt, indifference and defensiveness, you are about to initiate the apocalypse of your relationship”.

Forget the big arguments about money or who’s right. According to Dr. John Gottman, psychologist and researcher emeritus at the University of Washington and co-founder of the Gottman Institute, the real predictor of the end of a relationship is hidden in the toxic details of everyday communication.His claim, based on decades of study, is compelling: there are four behaviors so destructive that he dubbed them “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.””It’s not the existence of conflict that …