Love is wonderful, love is joy, love is the greatest thing in the world… Love is also an enormous pain in the ass. Marriage is hard work. (Older people are nodding right now while young people are ...

John and Julie Gottman have studied, with unusual rigor and for 40-plus years now, what makes relationships work. Their findings are summarized in the book Eight Dates. "Eight dates" refers to ...

Drs. John and Julie Gottman don’t overrely on lofty metaphors or romantic platitudes when they discuss exactly what it means to make a relationship work. They talk about houses. As they explain in the ...