Sentences with phrase «marriage with less conflict»

Do you dream of a marriage with less conflict and more intimacy?

Not exact matches

Those couples who have realistic expectations of one another and their marriage, communicate well, use conflict resolution skills, and are compatible with one another are less at risk for divorce.

Marriages with high conflict and domestic violence were less likely to become happy five years later.

Dr. Michael McNulty, a master trainer from The Gottman Institute and founder of the Chicago Relationship Center, tells Business Insider maintaining a marital friendship, romance, and intimacy, managing ongoing conflict that is inevitable in marriage, and creating and maintaining a meaningful relationship is more challenging for partners with successful careers because they have less time to do so.

Research by Dr. John Gottman — who spent sixteen years studying what makes marriages thrive and fail in his «love lab» at the University of Washington and who famously possesses the ability to predict with over 90 % accuracy whether a couple will end up divorcing based on watching them interact for just 15 minutes — found that happy couples don't necessarily have less conflict in their marriage than unhappy ones.

Spouses who weren't getting as much sex as they desired were less satisfied and thought about ending their marriages more often, had less positive communication with their partners, and reported more conflict.

Some studies have looked at things like coping processes, 2 attachment styles3 and capacity for forgiveness4 as factors that may influence marriage longevity, in other words, maybe couples that know how to cope with (and recover from) conflict better, or are not particularly insecure, or are better at forgiving are less likely to suffer when their marriages face the inevitable arguments that all couples face.

With less time together, Dr. Mike McNulty, a Master Certified Gottman Therapist, says maintaining a marital friendship, romance, and intimacy; managing ongoing conflict that is inevitable in marriage; and creating and maintaining a meaningful relationship is more challenging for partners with successful careWith less time together, Dr. Mike McNulty, a Master Certified Gottman Therapist, says maintaining a marital friendship, romance, and intimacy; managing ongoing conflict that is inevitable in marriage; and creating and maintaining a meaningful relationship is more challenging for partners with successful carewith successful careers.

Dr. Michael McNulty, a master trainer from The Gottman Institute and founder of the Chicago Relationship Center, tells Business Insider that maintaining a marital friendship, romance, and intimacy, managing ongoing conflict that is inevitable in marriage, and creating and maintaining a meaningful relationship is more challenging for partners with successful careers because they have less time to do so.

The main results show that (a) mothers promote family integrity in stepfamilies either with the partner, or with the father, but not with both; (b) the older the child, the less the mothers reported integrity with the father in both families, and the more they reported disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies; and (c) maternal marital satisfaction is linked with all dimensions of coparenting with the father in first - marriage families, but only with disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies.

Mothers in high conflict marriages are reported to be less warm, more rejecting, and use harsher discipline, and fathers withdraw more and engage in more intrusive interactions with their children compared with parents in low - conflict marriages (Heatherington and Stanley - Hagan, 1999; Krishnakumar and Buehler, 2000).