Sentences with phrase «study of failing marriages»

Actress - writer - director Lake Bell's second feature behind the camera is more sketch - driven comedy than resonant study of failing marriages, but by the third act a more open, warmer voice emerges.

In 2010, writer - director Derek Cianfrance broke out with Blue Valentine, the Ryan Gosling - Michelle Williams character - based study of a failing marriage.

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The principles of this study would judge such dehumanized sex, even within marriage, as a serious moral failing.

An Australian study of more than 21,000 child abuse survivors age 60 and older reported a higher rate of failed marriages and relationships.

Psychologists extensively study the problem of loneliness in the modern world, with social scientists trying to explain the background and reasons for divorces and failed marriages.

What begins as a stark study of the breakdown of a marriage in a small Russian city expands into a more languid, mysterious drama about disconnected lives and failed responsibilities, centered around a missing child whose disappearance haunts the film.

What begins as a stark study of the breakdown of a marriage in a small Russian city expands into a more languid, mysterious drama about disconnected lives and failed responsibilities, centred around a missing child whose disappearance haunts the film.

Based on intensive, detailed, and long - term scientific study of why marriages succeed or fail, John Gottman, in collaboration with Julie Gottman, has developed innovative assessment tools and intervention strategies to strengthen happy marriages and committed relationships, and support and repair troubled ones.

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.

John Gottman, one of the leading marriage and relationship researchers of our day, has studied extensively why marriages and relationships succeed or fail.

The Gottmans have studied both the «masters and disasters» of marriage (as the absence of what makes for a good relationship may not necessarily be the same thing as what makes for a bad relationship), and offers that there are a number of myths about why relationships succeed or fail.

For an interesting discussion of why living together fails miserably as a «trial marriage,» as well as a review of a number of other studies that give similar results as the University of Wisconsin study, check out two articles written by Dr. Willard Harley.

Other studies show that more than half of marriages that fail do so in the first seven years.