Sentences with phrase «as unhappy couples»

But, John Gottman — the premier researcher on relationships — found that happily married couples experience as much conflict as unhappy couples.

Happy couples are as frequently angry as unhappy couples.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

I am certainly grateful that divorce exists as a means of getting out of an unhappy marriage (unlike in the old Hollywood movies where women took trains to Mexico to get divorces or in India where the divorce rate is something crazy like 1 or 2 % but where many couples live estranged instead as divorce is still a taboo).

Many moms feel stressed, overwhelmed, or even unhappy during the first couple of weeks — a period also known as the baby blues.

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.

While past generations of couples have taken the attitude of «grin and bear it» when difficulties have arisen in their relationship, these days most couples are less willing to tolerate an unhappy marriage for very long without trying something, such as books, DVD's, workshops, or couples» retreats.

FOR the lovelorn, the new year can be an unhappy time, as they cast envious glances in the direction of lovey - dovey couples at the season's parties.

Instead, the movie plays like an inept domestic drama as two New England couples rail, brood, drink, and cross-fuck through the final acts of their unhappy marriages.

The film The Details, directed by Jacob Aaron Estes, stars Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks as the familiar unhappy suburban couple with a raccoon problem.

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.

Married people are happier by many measures, yet many marriages are unhappy or fail because couples bring to the partnership significant debt, including student loans and credit card balances, as well as self - deceptions and outright lies about...

Married people are happier by many measures, yet many marriages are unhappy or fail because couples bring to the partnership significant debt, including student loans and credit card balances, as well as self - deceptions and outright lies about money.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Couples who talk about their history as chaotic are often unhappy.

Most unhappy couples are in Negative Sentiment Override, which is a way of saying they have a tendency to perceive harmless or neutral comments as negative.

Happy couples have different daily interactions with each other that keep the romance alive as compared to unhappy couples, suggests Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author of «The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship.»

While couples counsellors might prescribe some «work» to resurrect the passion in unhappy marriages, those who continue to make each other a priority from the get - go would ideally see spending time together and caring about each other's experiences and opinions as enjoyable.

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7/29/2011 The Boston Globe The Magic Number when Magic's Gone: As Pressures Mount, Unhappy Couples still call it Quits at 7 years Featuring Thriveworks CEO Dr. Anthony Centore

He says, «Couples that describe their relationship history as chaotic are usually unhappy in the present.»

I am curious if you're seeing an increase in couples who view divorce as an easy option if they are unhappy and who have difficulty with the concept of having to work at marriage when true love is so, for lack of a better word, romanticized.

Distressed families experience roughly twice as many tensions per day as nondistressed families.61, 62 There is also greater spillover of conflict from one topic to another and greater «contagion» between marital and child - related tensions among unhappy couples than those who are more satisfied.62 Moreover, distressed couples are more likely to have continuing conflicts that recur in well - established patterns at the same time on subsequent days.62

In more recent research, Gottman (1999) found that most of the time, the speaker's intent is actually positive or neutral, but that in unhappy couples, the listener «hears» it as negative.

As home prices rise, some unhappy couples are seeing it as an opportunity to part ways without losing a ton of money from their real estate assets, according to an article at RISMediAs home prices rise, some unhappy couples are seeing it as an opportunity to part ways without losing a ton of money from their real estate assets, according to an article at RISMedias an opportunity to part ways without losing a ton of money from their real estate assets, according to an article at RISMedia.

Even though it's an unhappy time for couples, the formation of new households helps spur the local economy as newly single consumers purchase furniture, utilities and other services, he added.