Sharing fondness and admiration in intentional ways is the antidote to contempt and it increases the amount of affection in a relationship.| The Gottman Institute
Read how emotional flooding ignites your fight-or-flight mode and ways to avoid this so you don't derail your conflict management.| The Gottman Institute
Identify Gottman Four Horsemen in your conflict discussions, eliminate them and replace them with healthy, productive communication patterns.| The Gottman Institute
In a good enough relationship, people have high expectations for how they’re treated. They expect to be treated with kindness, love, affection, and respect.| The Gottman Institute
Since the 1980s, Gottman has brought more than three thousand married couples into his "love lab" near the University of Washington campus.| The Gottman Institute
The “magic ratio” is 5 to 1. For every negative interaction during conflict, a happy relationship has five (or more) positive interaction.| The Gottman Institute