Sentences with phrase «unhappy couples»

The high rate of failed relationships and the soaring number of unhappy couples seeking counseling services confirm this.

Did you know that happy couples report having the same amount of conflict as unhappy couples?

The patterns and sequences we observed were able to discriminate happy from unhappy couples in repeated studies.

That isn't always the case for unhappy couples.

At the same time, many unhappy couples say they feel trapped, unable to afford a breakup.

On the other hand, unhappy couples tend to engage in fewer positive interactions to compensate for their escalating negativity.

It's not a fun movie to watch and there are many other movies about unhappy couples which are much better.

The sooner unhappy couples realize that, the better — for their kids.

Thus, unhappy couples transition from the holiday season into the divorce season.

Divorce was not socially acceptable back then, so it is not really fair to go that far back because there were probably some very unhappy couples that stayed married despite their misery.

This is an essential ingredient that is consistently missing with unhappy couples.

Here's how happy and unhappy couples react differently in a few tough situations.

The disconnected, unhappy couple standing in line at the movies, or out to eat at a restaurant.

They still have arguments over kids, money, sex, housekeeping, in - laws as unhappy couples.

Do you believe that counseling is for unhappy couples?

The communications of unhappy couples are meant to manipulate.

There must be something in particular about the nature of the fights themselves that distinguishes happy from unhappy couples.

Unhappy couples do not have this skill set.

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.

Unhappy couples try to change each other.

Happy couples develop a dialogue with these perpetual problems, while unhappy couples become gridlocked and engage in destructive interaction patterns.

However, unhappy couples report their sex life is responsible for 50 to 75 percent of their unhappiness.

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).

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.

In the observational study of the conflict interactions of 130 newlywed couples, we discovered that the reason why unhappy couples get stuck in this negative absorbing state is the failure of repair attempts.

Unhappy couples become gridlocked by these arguments because they are focusing on me, not we.

Gottman studied couples for over 30 years and has scientifically identified specific relationship skills / tools that happy couples use (that unhappy couples often don't use).

Not so in unhappy couples.

Many unhappy couples are now calling it quits, local divorce attorneys and real - estate agents say, for one simple reason: Home prices have been rising, which means they can finally get some start - over cash out of houses that used to be underwater.

The story unhappy couples tell will focus on a major blowup rather than a fun time or happy memory.

Gottman got his hands on a videotape machine, a relatively new research tool, and began recording couples in conversation, studying the tapes over and over to see whether happy and unhappy couples differed in any way.

In his research lab, Dr. Gottman discovered that happy couples turned toward each other 86 % of the time, while unhappy couples turned towards each other only 33 % of the time.

When researchers analyzed blood samples of unhappy couples immediately after a big fight, they saw a significant decline in immune function, with the biggest drops happening in those whose fights were the most hostile.

Neil LaBute's follow up to «In the Company of Men» is another brilliantly vicious and savage dark dramedy... this time focusing on the destruction of a few unhappy couples and the web of «relationships» spawned during and in the aftermath.

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.

Unhappy couples think they accept themselves the way they are, but often they are in denial.

No matter how unhappy the couple is when they begin counseling, if they are motivated to work on themselves and their relationship, improvement is possible.

Unhappy couples know they need something different, but frequently don't know what.

I have noticed a lot of marriage advice for unhappy couples encourages them to reduce each other's unhappiness.

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.

Divorce ceremonies: In Tokyo, unhappy couples flock to the Divorce Mansion (a small rented room in a secret location) to smash their wedding rings with a mallet in front of family and friends.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a condensed, practical presentation of the research findings of John Gottman, PhD (University of Washington), on the differences between happy couples whose marriages endure, and unhappy couples whose marriages dissolve.

Gottman decided to answer this question by trying something very simple: Recording married couples talking for 15 minutes about a recent conflict that they were having in their relationship, and then carefully scrutinizing these recordings to see how happy and unhappy couples behaved differently.

That means unhappy couples withdraw 67 % of the time!

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.