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Posts Tagged ‘Marriage’

RELATIONSHIP HUMOR

In ART&HUMOR on August 6, 2012 at 1:48 am

 

A jealous husband hired a private detective to check on the movements of his wife. The husband wanted more than a written report; he wanted video of his wife’s activities.

A week later, the detective returned with a video. They sat down together to watch it. Although the quality was less than professional, the man saw his wife meeting another man! He saw the two of them laughing in the park. He saw them enjoying themselves at an outdoor café. He saw them dancing in a dimly lit nightclub. He saw the man and his wife participate in a dozen activities with utter glee.

“I just can’t believe this,” the distraught husband said.

The detective said, “What’s not to believe? It’s right up there on the screen!”

The husband replied, “I can’t believe that my wife could be so much fun!”

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MARRIAGE – SUCCESS PREDICATORS: #1

In RESEARCH on July 28, 2012 at 10:47 pm

 

Apparently empirical research has not been very successful at predicting which married couples are likely to separate/divorce and which married couples will stay together so far and only few researches have resulted in finding some indicators which could help with describing couples seeming to be at the greatest risk for martial dissolution.

Accordingly to Gottman and colleagues (Gottman, 1994; Gottman & Levenson, 1992) the way couples behave in conflict situations is more diagnostic of couple success than behavior in either pleasant or neutral interactions.

As I understand, this suggests that it is difficult to make up for negative interactions (in which speaker slopes isn’t significantly positive)  in conflict situations between spouses, even if there are positive and pleasant interactions between partners occurring as well. Read the rest of this entry »

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