John M. Gottman Quotes
- I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
- You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.
- Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
- Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.
- Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio…
- In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
- Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.
- In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball.…
- We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the…
- Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of…