Questions I have heard before from many of my clients: How often do healthy couples argue? Is there an art to having a successful argument? My partner and I have grown tremendously by talking through our disagreements, but I sometimes wonder if it’s happening... 
Q: How can you distinguish between your intuition telling you the partnership may not be right for you vs. your own fears about (and potential sabotaging of) your relationship? -N.M. A: “How will I know if he really loves me? I’m asking you ‘cause you know... 
One of John Gottman’s key observations is that the way we speak has a huge impact on others’ abilities to listen to us. Added to this is that the way a conversation begins is highly predictive of how not only that conversation will go, but also predictive of how the... 