Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto? made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict? with more than 90 percent accuracy? whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice. In "Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage," the Gottmans share this vital information so that couples can develop the skills to turn their relationship problems around and create strong, lasting unions. 
What emerged from the Gottmans? collaboration and decades of research is a body of advice that? s based on two surprisingly simple truths: Happily married couples behave like good friends, and they handle their conflicts in gentle, positive ways. The authors offer an intimate look at ten couples who have learned to work through potentially destructive problems? extramarital affairs, workaholism, parenthood adjustments, serious illnesses, lack of intimacy? and examine what they? ve done to improve communication and get their marriages back on track.