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Spring Clean Your Marriage
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we’d like to share an excellent article written by our friend Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT, titled “Get Out The Broom...8 Ways To Spring Clean Your Marriage.” We love...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Spring Cleaning
In Wednesday's posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we shared Lisa Brookes Kift’s excellent suggestions for reinvigorating your relationship in her article, “Get Out The Broom...8 Ways To Spring...
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The Workplace: Building Better Professional Relationships
Dr. Gottman’s groundbreaking research with couples has allowed us at The Gottman Institute to apply his work to a much broader spectrum of human relationships. His findings can teach us a great deal...
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The Workplace: The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio
As promised on Monday, today on The Gottman Relationship Blog we would like to share an article recently published in the Harvard Business Review that references Dr. Gottman's research. It describes a...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Turn Toward Your Coworkers
Happy Friday! In today's posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to share a list of suggestions from Dr. Gottman for building better emotional connections in coworker relationships....
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The Workplace: The Emotional Communication Game
“The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”- George Bernard Shaw Whether this quote makes you smile or cringe, it is likely to resonate all too well. We can...
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The Workplace: How Your Past Influences Your Connections with Coworkers
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we continue The Workplace series by sharing an exercise to help you understand how your past may affect your connections with coworkers. Like all relationships,...
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The Workplace: Things To Do Together
As promised on Wednesday, today on The Gottman Relationship Blog we’d like to share a list of activities that you can do with your coworkers! These activities are designed to give you an opportunity to...
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The Workplace: What Does Your Job Mean To You?
Building on last week's discussion on The Gottman Relationship Blog of maintaining a 5:1 ratio of positivity to negativity (referenced by CNN in this article on Sunday), we will spend this week...
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The Workplace: The Delicate Art of Giving Feedback
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to share an article referencing Dr. Gottman's research that was recently published in the Harvard Business Review. We feel that, given our current...
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The Workplace: Rituals of Connection with Coworkers
(Editor’s note: Our thoughts and prayers remain with the police officers, first responsers, and people of Boston. It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in...
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The Four Horsemen: Introduction
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we are excited to introduce a brand-new 5 week series on The Four Horsemen! Though we have mentioned them in previous postings, we have not yet had the chance to...
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The Four Horsemen: Recognizing Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and...
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to continue The Four Horsemen series by providing you with a strong foundation of understanding before we go into further depth about each specific...
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The Four Horsemen: The Antidotes
On Monday, we taught you how to recognize The Four Horsemen in your relationship. In today’s posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to continue The Four Horsemen series by sharing Dr....
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The Four Horsemen: Criticism
This week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we will continue The Four Horsemen series by digging deeper into the first horseman of the apocalypse: criticism. Before we do so, however, we’d like to...
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The Four Horsemen: Criticism Part II
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to continue Monday's discussion on criticism. It is a natural human endeavor for people to seek an explanation for their negativeaffective states...
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The Four Horsemen: Criticism Weekend Homework Assignment
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to give you the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned about criticism this week. On Monday, we explained the difference between a complaint...
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The Four Horsemen: Defensiveness
Greetings from The Gottman Institute! We hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend. This week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we continue our series on The Four Horsemen with Horseman #2:...
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The Four Horsemen: Defensiveness Part II
In healthy relationships, partners don’t get defensive when discussing an area of conflict. According to Dr. Gottman, they instead take responsibility for their role in the issue and express an...
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The Four Horsemen: Defensiveness & Blind Spots
Happy Friday! We hope you have learned a lot about Defensiveness (discussed on Monday here) and its antidote (discussed on Wednesday here) in this week's postings. Today on The Gottman Relationship...
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