Inside the Love Lab | Julie & John Gottman
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Love. What makes it work? And, keep working for life? That's where we're headed in today's conversation with legendary co-founders of the Gottman Institute a/k/a the "Love Lab," Julie and John Gottman.
Drawing upon Julie's decades of clinical observations and John's 40 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples, they've developed stunning insights into what makes relationships work and last.
Julie and John lead The Art and Science of Love and many other workshops in Seattle and Julie has also co-designed the national clinical training program in Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
Between them, they've written a number of bestselling books on love and relationships, the latest of which, Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for Lifetime of Love, integrates their decades of collaboration into a prescription for couples to make eight dates that will bring them together and keep their relationship vibrant.
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| 0:00.0 | So when you think about the experience that so many people pretty much say makes life |
| 0:10.1 | worth living, the word love tends to come up pretty often. |
| 0:13.7 | And a ton of questions tend to follow. |
| 0:17.2 | How do you find it? |
| 0:18.2 | How do you keep it? |
| 0:19.8 | Can you keep it? |
| 0:21.0 | Is staying in love something that is mythical, you only see it in the Moves and TV, is it |
| 0:26.3 | a skill set that you develop? |
| 0:28.5 | Part of the things that tend to trip people up and what can you do to really build beautiful |
| 0:33.8 | relationships that allow you to stay in love for life is that even possible? |
| 0:40.0 | That is where I go in my conversation today with John and Julie Gottman. |
| 0:45.2 | They are sort of luminaries in the field of relationships and love, founders of something |
| 0:51.4 | that has become known as the love lab where for decades they have studied relationships, |
| 0:56.9 | successful, disastrous and really been able to deconstruct and figure out what are the |
| 1:03.3 | things that go into creating and sustaining extraordinarily beautiful in love, deeply |
| 1:10.4 | committed relationships for long times. |
| 1:13.4 | They have a new book out called Eight Dates as well, which is really fantastic. |
| 1:19.0 | It is eight dates and how to have them that cover eight different topics that are super |
| 1:25.1 | important for pretty much anyone who is in a relationship or who is looking to find |
| 1:31.2 | that person to explore. |
| 1:33.9 | We dive into all this. |
| 1:35.0 | We dive into their personal journeys, their individual research. |
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