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Old 05-10-2013, 10:53 AM   #1
glatt
 
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4 behaviors that will kill a marriage

Scientific American blog has a pretty good article about 4 behaviors that can predicts with 93% certainty whether a marriage will fail or not.

Use scientifically proven methods to improve your relationship. And laugh at the Kardashians doing it exactly wrong in example videos of what not to do.

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in case the enormity of what I just said didn’t sink in quite yet, solely based on how often you notice four behaviors occurring in a single, 15-minute conversation, you can predict with 93% accuracy whether or not a couple will still be married 14 years from now.

Now I’m guessing you probably want to know what these four behaviors — or, as Gottman and Levenson call them, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — actually are. These four toxic behaviors are called contempt, criticism, stonewalling, and defensiveness.
Read the article for more info.
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