It is an amazing fact that ongoing avoidance of conflict in a relationship is the # 1
predictor of divorce among married couples.
Not exact matches
Here's where it gets interesting: After all that research, Dr. Gottman noticed a clear pattern
among couples that didn't stay together, identifying what he says is the # 1
predictor of divorce.
Predicting
Divorce among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes of a Marital Conflict Discussion (1999) tested the hypothesis that the way in which a discussion of a marital conflict begins — in its first few minutes — is a predictor of d
Divorce among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes
of a Marital Conflict Discussion (1999) tested the hypothesis that the way in which a discussion
of a marital conflict begins — in its first few minutes — is a
predictor of divorcedivorce.
Here's where it gets interesting: After all that research, Gottman noticed a clear pattern
among couples that didn't stay together, identifying what he says is the no. 1
predictor of divorce.
Torvik and colleagues examined couples aged 20 and older in Norway and found that concordant abstainers and concordant heavy drinkers (e.g., drinking 10 or more times over 2 weeks and endorsed at least one indicator
of hazardous drinking) had lower
divorce rates, but that
among discordant drinkers, heavy drinking only
among wives was a stronger
predictor of divorce than heavy drinking only
among husbands (Torvik, Røysamb, Gustavson, Idstad, & Tambs, 2013).