Yes, Dear

If you want your marriage to be successful, forget trendy communication methods like “active listening,” says John Gottman of the University of Washington. Psychologist Gottman and his team studied 130 newlyweds and compared them with long-married couples to see how they handled disagreements. “We found that only those newlywed men who are accepting of influence from their wives are winding up in happy, stable marriages,” Gottman said. (Reuters) ...While their research results didn’t support this conclusion, they were afraid not to write what their wives told them to.