Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Magic Relationship Ratio

Dr. John Gottman, the nations leading relationship researcher, has studied couples for decades. He has found that successful couples have a "magic" ratio of positive to negative interactions - 5:1.  Here he explains this finding briefly in this video:




So remember, your "skills" in communication or relationships are nothing to just having positive interactions with your spouse. Put otherwise, you can have great "skills", but if you are a jerk, your relationship will still suffer. So simple, and so important.

If you want to read more, here is a great book by Dr. Gottman that I highly reccomend.

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