What Makes Love Last?, Nan Silver
What Makes Love Last?, Nan Silver
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What Makes Love Last?
How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal

Author: Nan Silver, John M. Gottman, PhD

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/04/2012

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Dr. John Gottman, the country's preeminent researcher on marriage, is famous for his Love Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle where he deciphers the mysteries of human relationships through scientific research. His thirty-five years of exploration have earned him numerous awards, including from the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Now, Dr. Gottman offers surprising findings and advice on the characteristic that is at the heart of all relationships: Trust. Dr. Gottman has developed a formula that precisely calculates any couple's loyalty level. The results determine a relationship's likely future, including the potential for one or both partners to stray.

What Makes Love Last? shows couples how to bolster their trust level and avoid what Dr. Gottman calls the "Roach Motel for Lovers." He describes how the outcome of "sliding door moments," small pivotal points between a couple, can lead either to more emotional connection or to discontent. He suggests a new approach to handling adultery and reveals the varied and unexpected non-sexual ways that couples often betray each other. What Makes Love Last? guides couples through an empirically tested, trust-building program that will help them repair and maintain any long-term, intimate romantic relationship.

About Nan Silver

Nan Silver is the former editor-in-chief of Health magazine and coauthor, with John Gottman, of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Why Marriages Succeed or Fail.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samuel on February 08, 2014

The Gottman institute applied science to relationships and solved that whole problem. Perhaps the first great scientific achievement of the century. John Gottman can sit down with a couple for a short time and tell you, with over 90% accuracy, if that couple will divorce. It is not magic either, the......more

Goodreads review by Lyubomyr on October 13, 2013

It’s the most meaningful research based relationship advice I’ve ever read. Loving partnership gives us wonderful gifts that make life worth living: a sense of purpose, greater health and wealth, and, of course, loving care and nurturance. We all desire to have it. But, how to make it last for deca......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 09, 2012

John Gottman has done it again. This book should be REQUIRED reading for anyone who wants to have successful relationships. John Gottman has come full circle in this book, closing the gap on a lot of his earlier interventions that didn't go quite far enough. Read it - you'll be glad you did.......more

Goodreads review by Misty on August 08, 2020

Great for long-term, monogamous, heterosexual married couples who want to find ways to enhance their relationship. Extremely binary and conservatively biased, but great for religious folks or those with traditional values looking for more happiness in their marriage. A lot of good examples of specif......more

Goodreads review by Janai on November 02, 2012

This was another book written discussing the results found from Gottman's research in his "love lab" at University of Washington. He discusses the positive aspects of relationships instead of writing about what couples do wrong. It includes assignments, tests, and statistics that provide hands-on to......more

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