Dr. Gottman's 7 Principles to Save (or Strengthen) Your Marriage: Book Insights on The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver

* When John Gottman began researching marriage in the early 1970s, there was little scientific data on the factors that make it work.  

* Counsellors depended on conventional wisdom, opinion, intuition, religious beliefs or the ideas of psychologists.   

* The result? Not much effectiveness. Using quantitative research based on direct observation of couples, Gottman identified consistent patterns in what causes marriages to fail – and, more importantly, patterns that enable them to succeed.  

* The good news: you don’t have to agree on everything, you don’t have to change who you are and you don’t need to change them.  

* If you value your marriage, and are willing to commit to it, there is no reason why you can’t save it.  

Theme 1: Let Go of the Myths - 0:27

Theme 2: Nurture the Friendship and How to Deal with Conflict - 11:50

Theme 3: Most Marriages Can be Saved - 24:05

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HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: 

Institute, Gottman. “Making Marriage Work | Dr. John Gottman.” YouTube, YouTube, 30 Jan. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTyPgwfPgg.  

“Making Marriage Work: Dr. John Gottman.” YouTube, 30 Jan. 2018, youtu.be/AKTyPgwfPgg?t=2732.   

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Full Title: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Year of Publication: 1999

Book Author: John M Gottman & Nan Silver  

To purchase the complete edition of this book click here:  

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0609805797 

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Editor: Tom Butler-Bowdon

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