Sentences with phrase «predicts stable marriages»

Much of my work with couples is informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and John Gottman's research on what predicts stable marriages.

Not exact matches

There are three general factors that can help predict how happy and stable your marriage will be (Larson and Holman, 1994).

However, research indicates that interracial marriages were 13 % more likely, in one report, to divorce than same - race marriages.32 Though interracial marriage did not predict divorce per se, they were generally less stable and the risks varied by ethnicity.

The common thread Gottman found that predicts divorce so well is weaved into it, and it is this: for a marriage to be stable, you must have lots more positive interactions than negative interactions.