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- Title
The Natural Principles of Love.
- Authors
Gottman, John; Gottman, Julie
- Abstract
In this Original Voices article we summarize the past four and a half decades of our work on relationship stability and happiness and explore the theoretical implications of that empirical research. First, we briefly review the laboratory research, clinical work, and the mathematics used to understand our results and build our theory. Then we describe the sound relationship house theory, constructive blueprints for managing conflict, and the three phases of love. We use the term love in the narrow sense of the primary emotions that draw people together to form a lasting, committed relationship between lovers, regardless of sexual orientation. Although we began with no theory at all, we were led by our data and our clinical work at the Gottman Institute.
- Subjects
COUPLES; SOCIOLOGY of love; INTERPERSONAL relations; SEXUAL orientation; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL epidemiology
- Publication
Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1756-2570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jftr.12182