Entries by Benita Esposito
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Saturday April 18, 2015. 9:45am-noon A Workshop Learn how to avoid “Disasters of Marriage.” Based on Dr. Gottman’s 40 years of research with 3,000 couples. Half of all divorces occur within 7 years. Discover the single biggest factor that predicts divorce at 16 years of marriage. Four behaviors that predict divorce within 6 years of […]
9 Meditation Tips
Research shows that meditation helps reduce anxiety and stress. It helps reduce blood pressure and enhances focus, memory and learning. It helps you get a better night’s sleep and increases your creativity. You will have a deeper sense of inner peace. Most likely your physical health will improve as well. Mine does every time I […]
Dr. John Gottman’s Marriage Research FAQs
Dr. John Gottman is a rigorous psychological researcher who has studied what makes “Masters and Disasters of Marriage” for 50 years. Couples hang out at his “Love Lab” in Seattle for a weekend while assistants record their behavior and physiological responses. Gottman can predict divorce with approximately 94% accuracy. In this article, you will read […]
Will Your Marriage Survive?
After four decades of research tracking 3,000 couples, Dr. John Gottman compared the communication habits of couples who stayed married with couples who divorced within 15 years. He isolated four behaviors that unhappy couples use which predict divorce with 94 percent accuracy. That may seem outlandish, but it’s backed up by solid research. Four Horsemen […]
Success, Love and Money. Can you have it all?
Does Wealth Create True Fulfillment? Let me tell you a story about my friend, Jan Dahlin Geiger. Many years ago when Jan was in her mid-30’s, she was an executive earning $100,000 per year. In today’s dollars, adjusted for inflation, that would be $300,000. She was ranked in the top 5% of all income-earners in […]
Marriage Essentials: Appreciation and Affection
Do you know that expressing appreciation is one of the essential ingredients of a happy marriage? That’s right. According to Dr. John Gottman’s research, we must express at least five positive interactions to neutralize the impact of one negative interaction. In really happy marriages, couples express 20 positives to every one negative. The mostly destructive […]
