Sentences with phrase «among happy couples»

What constitutes «normal» behavior among happy couples?

One difference between happy and unhappy marriages is the tendency among happy couples to stand together during hard times, rather than against or away from each other.

«This positive perspective, which is a trend among the happiest couples in decades of research by The Gottman Institute, is something that increases warmth, friendship and feeling generally liked by their partner.

Not exact matches

A divorce among those close to us makes us feel vulnerable, and we question our own marriage — if a couple we thought were perfectly happy together splits, well, what about us?

A more equal marriage doesn't necessarily mean a happier marriage: A recent Norweigan study found higher divorce rates among couples who split the housework evenly.

Among her many talents, my granddaughter Sophie, who has just turned 2 *, has a clear vision of what would make her happy, coupled with the persuasive skills and executive function to make it happen.

Still, the happiest long - term couples among us obviously know a thing or two about keeping up the excitement — if they didn't, nobody would be monogamous.

Among the survey's happiest couples, 85 percent of both men and women say «I love you» at least once a week.

Yet Dibb and co-scripter Matt Charman do at least make a stab at including a smattering of Nemirovsky's vast supporting cast, among them an embittered farmer who joins the Resistance (Sam Riley) and a couple of aristocrats only too happy to make nice with the enemy (Lambert Wilson and Harriet Walter).

Gottman's research is well - known as being able to predict with a 90 % accuracy which couples will divorce and which will stay married; and among those who do stay married, which couples will be happy and which will be unhappy.

The resulting separation, along financial and emotional strain, can lead to divorce even among previously happy couples.

According to Dr. Gottman, there really is one secret formula that can be found among all of the happy - stable couples he has studied: 5 to 1.

There is a scientific reason: in the book The Normal Bar, scientists analyzed data from 100,000 people around the world and found that, among those people who reported being happiest in their relationships, 74 % reported that they give back rubs to their partners.2 Mutual massage thus appears to be something that most happy couples have in common!

It's true that no two marriages look exactly the same, but there are a few common threads among those highly effective, happy couples.

He was looking for patterns in relationships and was able to determine the differences among couples who stayed together and were happy over time, couples who stayed together and were not happy, and couples who divorced.

Storied marriage expert, Dr. John Gottman, explains that conflict - avoiders are considered a happy - stable conflict type among married couples.

However, results from his systematic study proved that couples did behave with tremendous regularity over time and science could, indeed, identify sequences of interactions among sets of happy and unhappy couples.

By contrast, among couples who married between 24 - 26, only 14 percent divorced, and only 20 percent of women said they were «not very happy» in their marriage.

In his latest work with Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos (Oxford, 2016), Brad Wilcox shines a much - needed spotlight on the lives of strong and happy minority couples.

Decades of research conducted among all types of couples, across all phases of life, allowed Gottman to predict with over a 90 % accuracy rate, which couples would end up happy, unhappy or divorced.

The «Knot Yet» report finds that among couples who married at 30 or above, only 8 percent divorced within the first ten years of marriage — but a whopping 50 percent of women were «not very happy» in their marriage.

For instance, among those who cohabited, couples who decided to live together before marriage in an intentional way are more likely to enjoy happy marriages, compared to couples who just slid into cohabitation before marriage.

Even scholar Mavis Hetherington is not spared DePaulo's conscientious scrutiny and critical thinking: «The first few times I saw such «happily» statements, I thought they were just sloppy writing errors... Hetherington and her coauthor John Kelly, for example, noted that «happily married couples are healthier, happier, wealthier, and sexier...» Did they really mean to say that married people are happier than single people, as long as you include among the married people only those who are happy?

At the same time, only about a third of the partners among older couples are entirely happy with the amount of support they get from their spouse and feel that their partners are not very critical or demanding.