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Keeping Marriages Healthy, and Why It’s So Difficult

After two people stand before everyone important to them in the world and publicly declare that they love each other and intend to remain together for the rest of their lives, everything social psychology has learned about the stability of publicly declared opinions suggests that these will be the most stable opinions of all (Festinger, 1957). Yet of course they aren’t.

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Making Relationships a Little Smoother Around the Edges

The more we can provide the conditions for happiness in others, the more likely we'll find the relationships we seek.

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Andy Puddicombe
2013
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It Only Takes One to Have a Happy Marriage

It doesn't take two people to end war in a marriage; it takes only one. And if two people have ended it, life can be twice as beautiful.

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Byron Katie
2016
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6 Steps to Stop Gossiping + Why It Matters

Gossip can cause trouble in your inner life as well as your outer life. Here's how to rein it in.

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Sally Kempton
2009
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Abraham Maslow on Keeping Romantic Love Alive

Maslow intuitively predicted the latest findings from positive psychology.

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Edward Hoffman
2020
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Although Two, Live as One

Amma’s advice for couples.

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Mata Amritandamayi (Amma)
2018
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Masters of Love

Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this Earth.

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Emily Esfahani Smith
2014
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Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel

From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days.

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Alexandra Schwartz
2018
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Debunking Relationship Myths: An Interview with John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman

In all kinds of relationships, people have conflict and disagreements and hurt one another's feelings. What determines the success of the relationship is the way people deal with conflict, the nature of their friendship and intimacy, and their shared meaning system.

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Omega Institute
2014
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Five Myths About Marriage

Marriage is one of the oldest social, economic, religious and legal institutions in the world, and there’s no shortage of opinions on what makes it work. But much of the conventional wisdom is not based on evidence, and some is flat-out wrong.

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John Gottman and Christopher Dollard
2018
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Making Relationships Work

Unless you’re a hermit, you can’t avoid relationships. And your professional career certainly won’t go anywhere if you don’t know how to build strong, positive connections. Leaders need to connect deeply with followers if they hope to engage and inspire them.

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Diane Coutu
2007
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