What happy couples do differently: the science of staying close after kids
Gottman's magic ratio: what lasting couples do in the middle of a fight
Couples who stay together fight too, sometimes loudly. So a team filmed couples in the middle of a fight and counted every moment, one by one. One count set the lasting couples apart.
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Ten o'clock, and the dishes again. You and Miva argue about who should do them, and your voices go up. Loud couples can last, as the lab saw. So what happens inside a fight that makes the difference?
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John Gottman's team filmed couples while they argued for 15 minutes about a problem of their choice. Then they marked every moment of the fight: a sneer, a complaint, a joke, a nod. And they counted.
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