Even though the ability to be open and honest with your significant other is a technically good thing, there are some things you should never say to your partner—thoughts you really should keep to ...

All of which sounds sensible enough, but as someone coming up on 15 years of marriage, I’ve always found this advice to be essentially useless. Despite the careful phrasing, the underlying tone of ...

Contempt is the single greatest predictor of divorce. That’s straight from Dr. John Gottman, whose decades of research in the famed “Love Lab” have cracked the code on why some couples survive the ...

All couples fight, it's a given. But when relationship stress mixes with work stress, financial angst, and family flare-ups, little squabbles can morph into damaging arguments. As a couples counselor, ...

Divorce often feels like a bolt from the blue. However, some experts believe the storm was predictable. Psychologist John Gottman even believes he has identified the behaviors that most often lead to ...