Love Lessons from the "Masters of Relationships"
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Some people are just good at building and maintaining healthy partnerships. In their 'Love Lab", the married researchers Dr John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman have seen how certain couples interact in ways that mean they'll happily stick together for decades.
The Gottmans join Dr Laurie Santos to explain what we can learn from these "Masters of Relationships" - so that the stresses and strains of life don't destroy our intimate partnerships.
Further reading: Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection by Dr John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman.
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| 1:15.0 | These days there's really no shortage of relationship advice out there. |
| 1:25.8 | There are the usual Dear Abbey and Modern Love type columns and newspapers and magazines. |
| 1:30.7 | There are also reality TV dating shows, couples podcasts, |
| 1:34.7 | Tik-Toc videos, Instagram reels, Reddit dating threads, and on and on. |
| 1:40.2 | Some of this advice is helpful, but a lot of it isn't backed up by empirical evidence. |
| 1:45.0 | So in this new season of the happiness lab, I wanted to explore what the science says about building |
| 1:50.0 | happier relationships. |
| 1:52.0 | And what better way to begin than with a husband and wife team |
| 1:54.8 | that not only has decades of married life experience |
| 1:57.2 | to draw on, but also a wealth of knowledge |
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