Sunday, 6 March 2016

Love and relationships. What is the secret?

I am reading an amazing book by John Gottman PhD that has a love lab and with questionnaires and observations can predict couples that divorce by 91%.
Book is "The seven principles for making marriage work"- John M. Gottman

The same principles apply for meaningful relationships.

Is you relationship amazing? good ? or surviving? do you think you know you partner?

take the simple questionnaire below from the above book and find out.


1. I can name my partner's best friend.  T/ F
2. I can tell you what stresses my partner is currently facing. T/F
3. I know the names of some people who have been irritating my partner lately. T/F
4. I can tell you some of my partners life dream. T/F
5. I am very familiar with my partners religious beliefs and ideas. T/F
6. I know my partner philosophy of life. T/F
7. I can list the relatives my partner likes the least. T/F 
8. I know my partners favourite music. 
9. I can list my partners favourite movies. T/F
10. My spouse is familiar with my stresses. T/F
11. I know the most special times in my partners life. T/F
12. I can tell the most stressful things that happened to my partner as a child. T/F
13. I can list my partner's major aspirations and hopes in life. T/F
14. I know my partner's major current worries. T/F
15. I know what my partner want to do if he win the lottery. T/F
16. My spouse knows who my friends are. T/F
17. I can tell in details my first impressions of my partners. T/F
18. Periodically i ask my partner about his or her world right now. T/F 
19. I feel that my partner knows me pretty well. T/F
20. My spouse is familiar with my hopes and aspirations. T/F

these is the LOVE MAP . 

Let me know the number of Trues you get from the questionnaire and I will let you know what this amazing professor of psychology discovered about you relationship longevity and understanding.

Respond with the number of you trues and I will write you the response.

If you can't want you can buy the book easily and cheap on Amazon/ good reads/ ibooks etc.

Have fun.

B
 
Visit the website of the professor him self https://www.gottman.com/


1 comment:

  1. uauau nearly 500 people read the article and no body did the questionnaire.
    as my favourite author says who doesn't take the first step never gets to take the second one.

    Think about it if you can't asked to answer these question would you invest time and effort to improve your relationship?
    i doubt it

    patiently waiting for someday to so the question and give me a number




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