Who Form 8865 Spouse 2023-2024

I welcome you to Hero TV. I'm Dr. Paul Jenkins. Give me a few minutes today to share with you something powerful. I've been so excited for this particular episode. We will be talking about how to communicate better with your spouse. In my 22 years of professional psychology experience, I've worked with a lot of couples, and one of the main things that they come in for assistance with is communication. Help us to communicate better. Okay, I have found that 100% of the couples communicate. Yeah, the question is, how do they communicate? So that's really what we're going to focus on. To put some context on this, I had an opportunity probably two decades ago to hear Dr. John Gottman present the research that he has summarized in this book, "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work." Dr. Gottman pointed out that roughly seventy percent (it's a huge number) of the problems in a marriage are unresolvable. Now, I share that with some couples and they just throw their hands in the air and they think, "Oh, what's the use? What are we going to do?" And others just feel relieved because they realize they're not so strange. Here's what was so interesting in Dr. Gottman's research. He found that that number was true of miserable, highly conflicted, headed-for-divorce couples. That makes sense, right? He also found that that was true of happy, well-adjusted, stable, satisfied couples. There was no difference in the number of unresolvable problems or, quite frankly, the magnitude or nature of those problems between these two groups. You could not even distinguish which group they were in based on that metric. Now, that's very interesting. When I came home from this conference, I shared this with my wife. I'd spent two days at...