10 Tips to Make a Long-Distance Relationship Work
Ten practical ways couples living apart, whether engaged or married and separated by work, study or visas, can stay close, communicate well…
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What Does Trust and Commitment Look Like in a Relationship?
A wife of 25 years reflects on what trust and commitment have looked like in her own marriage, especially through illness, grief…
from The Gottman Institute2 min read
Relationships 101: What They Don’t Teach You in School
The case for learning relationship skills on purpose, drawing on long-term research about wellbeing, and where to begin with the Gottmans' basic…
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Build Love Maps
Why knowing your spouse's inner world, from personal history to hopes, is the base of a lasting marriage, and how simple questions…
from The Gottman Institute2 min read
Starting a New Relationship in the Time of Coronavirus
Following government and state orders to isolate is of utmost importance as we try to flatten the coronavirus infection curve.It may be…
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Tired Of Being Single?
Three common reasons the search for a spouse stalls, from rigid checklists to waiting passively, and how to shift your approach with…
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Pursue Your Partner at Every Stage of Marriage
A therapist uses the story of a couple married forty years to show why spouses should keep choosing and pursuing each other…
from The Gottman Institute2 min read
Trust & Commitment: Why Every Happy Relationship Needs It
Relationship coach Kyle Benson explains how trust is built in small daily moments, how commitment creates security, and how betrayal can slowly…
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8 Tips for Starting a Successful, Long-term Relationship
Editor’s note: Elephant is a diverse community. We are reader-created. Many blogs here are experience and not fact or “The One Right Point…
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Seriously. What’s the Point of Marriage?
A Gottman Institute writer argues that marriage is meant less for constant happiness and more for growth, with each spouse stretched to…
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Invest in Your Relationship: The Emotional Bank Account
The Gottman Institute explains how small daily responses to a spouse's bids for attention build an emotional reserve that protects a marriage…
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The Eight Conversations That Matter Most in Relationships
John and Julie Gottman outline eight topics every couple should talk through, from trust and conflict to money, family, growth and dreams.
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