Our bestselling book on divorce prevention, Fighting for Your Marriage has been released and is available now (as of September 11, 2024). | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
I gave a talk at the 2023 meeting for NARME.org on 7-25-2023 with the latest findings from new data on premarital cohabitation. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
By Scott Stanley & Galena Rhoades| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Galena Rhoades and I have a new report out on premarital cohabitation, published by The Institute for Family Studies. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Family Expectations is a program for lower income, expectant parents (or those who recently had a baby) in Oklahoma City that has been the subject of three large, randomized controlled trials. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
If you are interested in the relationship education field, you may like reading this timely update at: DeseretNews| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Here’s a post of mine you may find interesting. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
I did a webinar for the Dibble Institute on January 12, 2020. It is available online: | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
The concepts of we-ness and couple identity arise throughout| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
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The Corona virus raises new challenges for our most cherished relationships. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
David Brooks, opinion columnist of the New York Times, wrote a thoughtful and somewhat provoking piece entitle The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake that appeared in The Atlantic last week. His article has received much attention.| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
My colleagues and I have written a new journal article on best| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
The researcher who wrote the following tweet has a nice thread on some technical details about difficulties scientists have with prediction of things in humans. It explains one of the major problems in predicting. Clicking on the tweet will take you to the beginning of his thread. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
I will cross post this here some day soon, but for now, here is the link for the article that I wrote at IFS.| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
My colleagues and I have published a number of articles about asymmetrical commitment in relationships--especially in unmarried romantic relationships. I have argued in many places that asymmetrical commitment is likely an increasingly common phenomena of romantic relationship development. The reason is that there are fewer steps and stages--less clarity about signals of commitment--in current patterns of dating and mate selection.| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
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This is among the most interesting (and lucid) reports on cohabitation, marriage, and family instability for children to come along in a while. Rackin & Gibson-Davis, just out in @JMF_NCFR.| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Scott M. Stanley and Galena K. Rhoades| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Having a long-term view supports the ability to delay| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
This post is to provide citations relevant for some of the work Galena Rhoades and I (and colleagues) have conducted on the subject of premarital cohabitation, specifically, the prediction of a timing effect related to when couples moved in together and marital outcomes. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
Here are links to the February 2018 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology. The links I have included are all the ones pertinent to military families. You can access the abstracts here with the links provided. | Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
I’m sure there is some lesson about commitment in most any| Sliding vs Deciding: Scott Stanley's Blog
A blog about research on romantic relationships and marriage.| slidingvsdeciding.blogspot.com