Sentences with phrase «many unhappy couples»

Those whose sex life is satisfying and beautiful may have intercourse with less frequency than unhappy couples who are frantically proving their sexuality or searching for a solution to their emotional pain.

The problem was not in the actual frequency of intercourse (as the unhappy couples might have described it to a marriage counselor) but in their inability to communicate.

The husbands of unhappy couples tended to say that twice a week was more than their wives wanted but was satisfactory to them; their wives tended to report that it was just right for them, but less than their husbands wanted.

The sculptures were pretty bizarre: Angry babies, men throwing babies, people killing monsters, unhappy couples... The museum actually closed before we got to it so we never did get any explanation for the sculptor's chosen theme.

Well, if he was unhappy a couple of days ago, then he will be distraught on deadline day.

The sooner unhappy couples realize that, the better — for their kids.

That isn't always the case for unhappy couples.

The issue is whether divorced couples can raise children who fare better in life as adults as opposed to unhappy couples who stay together and stick it out in an effort to keep the family intact.

Unhappy couples do not have this skill set.

Thus, unhappy couples transition from the holiday season into the divorce season.

When researchers analyzed blood samples of unhappy couples immediately after a big fight, they saw a significant decline in immune function, with the biggest drops happening in those whose fights were the most hostile.

Unhappy couples try to change each other.

Unhappy couples and happy couples have a different way of dealing with those things.

It's not a fun movie to watch and there are many other movies about unhappy couples which are much better.

At the same time, many unhappy couples say they feel trapped, unable to afford a breakup.

After we see their new bundle of hate yanking the family cat into his cage / crib by its tail, the unhappy couple proceed to dump their baby, stroller and all, into a Gotham sewer in the dead of winter.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Neophyte writer / director Bryan Bertino skillfully contrives a creeping sense of dread as unhappy couple James (Scott Speedman) and Kristen (Liv Tyler), fresh from a wedding, arrive at his parents» isolated country home in the middle of the night.

The film purports instead to show the rigidities of Victorian life: the social pressure to avoid divorce or annulment at all costs, the men's club aspects among the upper classes, the comparative freedom in Italy shown through the unhappy couple's trip to Venice, and especially the portrait of Margaret Cox Ruskin (Julie Walters) as the mother - in - law from hell who does not approve of her son's marriage, perhaps because she wants to continue bathing him.

My grandparents — stiff, unhappy couple that they were — got temporary custody.

The author, Washington Irving, relates the story of an unhappy couple, Tom and his wife.

Scattered around the home are half - finished paintings, notes between an unhappy couple and a quiet children's room.

For a while there, it seemed like a new one opened every week, filling our cities with dimly lighted rooms that smelled like ashtrays where unhappy couples could spend a couple of hours laughing at the comedians» jokes and then more time afterward recalling the jokes to each other, in a desperate attempt to avoid talking about how they didn't love each other anymore and delaying the next inevitable fight about nothing as they both pretended it wasn't over between them and they're both one step closer to spending the rest of their lives alone and miserable.

With cryptocurrency still relatively new as an asset class, there have been very few cases to date in which the unhappy couple have squabbled over altcoins.

Unhappy couples think they accept themselves the way they are, but often they are in denial.

No matter how unhappy the couple is when they begin counseling, if they are motivated to work on themselves and their relationship, improvement is possible.

Unhappy couples know they need something different, but frequently don't know what.

Instead of being accountable and taking significant steps toward the recovery of a struggling relationship, unhappy couples usually stay passive thinking that their lack of satisfaction isn't their fault and that in time the situation will somehow change and things will be as they were before (when the couple was still deeply in love).

It wouldn't be fair, or true, to say that unhappy couples are making themselves unhappy on purpose.

The communications of unhappy couples are meant to manipulate.

They do not lie, withhold, cheat, accuse, beat each other, dismiss each other, talk about each other behind their backs, condescend to each other, give each other the silent treatment, guilt trip, forget their anniversary, yell at each other, call each other names, demonize each other, or do the various other types of acting out that unhappy couples do.

By contrast, unhappy couples almost always present conflicting stories of their troubles, with one partner typically portrayed as the scoundrel and the other as the long - suffering victim.

Orbuch's research found that 11.5 percent of unhappy couples cited a lack of privacy as the main reason for their relationship dissatisfaction.

Research reveals that what lies at the heart of unhappy couple relationships can best be thought of not as some quality inherent in the partners, but as a failure to repair the inevitable conflicts and disjunctions that occur in any couple.

Unlike most jurisdictions, Texas does not recognize legal separation, so an unhappy couple looking to live separate and apart must decide whether they want to divorce.

But here's the difference between happy couples and unhappy couples: happy couples argue well.

Unhappy couples get stuck in what he calls The Nasty Box.

In fact, «happy couples fight just as much and about the same things as unhappy couples, Hummel said.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a condensed, practical presentation of the research findings of John Gottman, PhD (University of Washington), on the differences between happy couples whose marriages endure, and unhappy couples whose marriages dissolve.

Gottman decided to answer this question by trying something very simple: Recording married couples talking for 15 minutes about a recent conflict that they were having in their relationship, and then carefully scrutinizing these recordings to see how happy and unhappy couples behaved differently.

According to Dr. Gottman's research, married couples who are happy can easily recall positive stories from their past, such as how and when they first met, while unhappy couples tend to remember more negative memories.

Happy couples are as frequently angry as unhappy couples.

Which Dr. Ted Hudson explained that when the unhappy couples said, «We're incompatible» they were truly meaning, «We don't get along very well».

In his research lab, Dr. Gottman discovered that happy couples turned toward each other 86 % of the time, while unhappy couples turned towards each other only 33 % of the time.

That means unhappy couples withdraw 67 % of the time!

The Difference Between Happy and Unhappy Couples.»

There must be something in particular about the nature of the fights themselves that distinguishes happy from unhappy couples.

Unhappy couples, on the other hand, have lost touch with each other.

The difference between happy couples and unhappy couples is not that happy couples don't make mistakes.

The patterns and sequences we observed were able to discriminate happy from unhappy couples in repeated studies.