Empowering people to make strengthening choices
In my last article, I described Mature Love as a relationship rooted in three inner capacities: Integrity, Empathy, and Agency. These capacities enable two emotionally responsible adults to bring their best selves to their relationship. Together, they form the foundation of emotional maturity in marriage. But what does it mean to bring your whole self […]
When couples first fall in love, their positive feelings and friendship are so natural. They enjoy spending time together—talking laughing and being curious about each other’s thoughts and experiences. Simply being together feels energizing and enlivening. But over time, something often changes. Marriage gradually becomes dominated by responsibilities—work, children, finances, schedules, and the endless logistics […]
A big strategy that gets at the heart of building positive feelings and friendship in your relationship with your partner is play and recreation. By this I mean doing activities that are fun and which you can do together. Number One Factor in Marital Happiness Marriage researchers at the University of Denver did a […]
As I pointed out in my last article, one of the characteristics of successful and satisfying relationships is “positive sentiment override.” This means that you have built up enough positive feelings (friendship) towards each other that you’re able to withstand the inevitable disappointments, conflicts, and just plain hard times in your marriage. One of the […]
The purpose of this article is to talk about friendship in marriage. But first, I need to tell you about the research of John Gottman at the University of Washington in Seattle. Gottman may be the most respected researcher on marriage in the world. For four decades now, John and his wife Julie have studied […]
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