John M. Gottman famous quotes

07-12-2025

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
-- John M. Gottman

#Respect #Believe #Essentials
Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.
-- John M. Gottman

#Shut Up
Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.
-- John M. Gottman

#Communication #Emotional #Understanding
You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.
-- John M. Gottman

#Interesting #Ironic
Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
-- John M. Gottman

#Couple #Divorce #Being Positive
We move in response to our conversation partnerâ€™s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.
-- John M. Gottman

#Moving #Passion #Fire
In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
-- John M. Gottman

#Giving Up #Order #Needs
Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.
-- John M. Gottman

#Connections #Interaction #Persons
Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships
-- John M. Gottman

#Gay #Principles #Marriage Equality
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
-- John M. Gottman

#Marriage #Soccer #People

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