Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

by John M. Gottman

Learning to understand and accept the ways in which you’re different is key to creating lasting connection and enduring love.

And every successful marriage and relationship has, at its foundation, a deep and close friendship—partners who really know each other and are, at the heart of it, on the same side, part of the same team.

happy relationships can strengthen children’s school performance, peer relationships, and emotional intelligence.

Children are incredibly resilient, and by showing your commitment to your relationship with your partner, you’re nurturing your children by ensuring that they will be raised by parents in a healthy and stable relationship. Children feed off of the love in a marriage. Remember they are constantly modeling you, and you want them to see how you sustain a loving marriage.