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Small Things Often

Welcome to Small Things Often, a podcast from The Gottman Institute Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small … Continued

Making Gottman Concepts Teachable for Kids

Help kids connect with their peers using Gottman-based exercises

How Gottman Therapy Saved Matt and Greg

Gay parents revive their stressed-out relationship with the help of their therapist

Top 10 Gottman Relationship Blog Posts of 2019

In 2019, we took a look at the things that challenge relationships, and ways to ultimately make the relationships we choose stronger.

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

John Gottman draws on his studies of more than 120 families to zero in on the parenting techniques that ensure a child’s emotional health.

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Why Turning Against Your Partner’s Bids Is So Harmful

When two people have been in a committed relationship for a long time, a certain sense of familiarity develops.  If … Continued

Put Feelings Into Words and Ask Open-Ended Questions

Enjoy more intimate conversations by learning to label your emotions and asking questions that beg for a detailed response.

How to Strengthen Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

Children need the experience of feeling emotions and practice tolerating them to develop self-control and emotional intelligence.

How to Engage in Emotion Coaching

Emotion coaching gets to the heart of your child’s feelings and behaviors.

Becoming an Emotion Coach

What determines how children turn out? This is the question on every parent’s mind. 

I’d Sworn off Dating “Allies,” Until I Met a Real One

He may never understand exactly how I’m feeling or what it’s like to be in my shoes, but he knows when to speak up and when to stay quiet—to listen and learn from me and others with different experiences.