Summer Romance: Turning Towards
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we continue our Summer Romance series by sharing a list of fun, summer-related date ideas for reconnecting with your partner this weekend. While seeing an...
View ArticleBringing Baby Home
We are very excited to announce the relaunch of the critically acclaimed Bringing Baby Home program! The first Educator Training has been scheduled and will take place in Seattle, WA on October 26 –...
View ArticleBringing Baby Home: The Research
One afternoon in 1998, Dr. John Gottman received a call from a woman at Seattle Children’s Hospital on behalf of the newspaper Seattle’s Child. She wanted to know if John could give a keynote lecture...
View ArticleBringing Baby Home: Interview
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we are very excited to bring you an exclusive interview with two Bringing Baby Home Master Trainers. We recently sat down with Carolyn Pirak and Joni Parthemer...
View ArticleBringing Baby Home: The Training Program
Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we announced the relaunch of the Bringing Baby Home program and shared the date of the first Educator Training, which will take place on October 26th and...
View ArticleBringing Baby Home: Baby Makes Three
Happy Friday! Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we'd like to share a few important pieces of information.First, as promised, we offer you a look at the format of our upcoming Bringing Baby Home...
View ArticleMaking Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn't Capsize Your Relationship
Last week, The Huffington Post published an article featuring our research – a very well written, comprehensive piece about the Gottman approach to managing physiological and emotional flooding in...
View ArticleSleepless in Seattle
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we confess we are having difficulty sleeping at night. It’s August, it's hot in Seattle, most of us are not fortunate enough to have air conditioning, and we...
View ArticleSelf Care: Cherishing Yourself And Your Relationship
In Wednesday’s posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, in which we shared a recent study out of UC Berkeley on the relationship between sleep and relationship conflict, we brought up the importance...
View ArticleRelationships in The Digital Age: The Gottman Perspective
As we have mentioned previously on The Gottman Relationship Blog, Dr. John Gottman’s groundbreaking research with couples has allowed us at The Gottman Institute to apply his work to a much broader...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: The Price We Pay
Technology is changing what it means to be "together." While communication is nearly effortless and instantaneous at any distance, it can be more difficult to connect with others. It’s...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: Weekend Homework Assignment
Dr. John Gottman has discovered many surprising things about relationships over the past four decades, sharing these findings with us in his books, lectures, conferences, and workshops. Central to his...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: Conflict in Cyberspace
Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we launched our new series: Relationships in the Digital Age. We started off by investigating the basics of virtual communication in relationships,...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: What's Beneath the Conflict?
In our last post on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we introduced the topic of Conflict in Cyberspace. Today, we would like to explore the subject in greater depth. First, we give you a brief summary of...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: 10 Tips for Avoiding Conflict in Cyberspace
If you have taken one thing away from our Relationships in the Digital Age series up to this point, we hope it is an awareness of the folly of text warfare. Having been persuaded of the inadvisability...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: Long-Distance Relationships
Over the last couple of weeks on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we have written much about the dangers of conducting intimate relationships in The Digital Age using modern communication technologies....
View ArticleThe Digital Age: Building Intimacy
Happy Friday from all of us at The Gottman Institute! Having discussed some of the benefits that modern communication technology has to offer intimate relationships on Wednesday, particularly to those...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: A Practitioner's Perspective
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we are excited to feature a guest posting from Zach Brittle, LMHC. Zach is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, WA specializing in couples therapy. He...
View ArticleWeekend Homework Assignment: Choosing Better
On Tuesday, we invited Zach Brittle, LMHC to write an article for our series on Relationships in the Digital Age. We loved his perspective as a clinician, and have decided to follow up by connecting...
View ArticleThe Digital Age: Reconnect With Yourself
We are complex creatures. We are shaped by the environment in which we live, by our achievements and shortcomings, by the people we surround ourselves with, and most of all, by our actions. In the age...
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