How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

by Jancee Dunn

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

Expressions of gratitude were the “most consistent significant predictor of marital quality.”

Psychologists from Emory University’s Family Narratives Lab found that teens with a solid knowledge of their family history have lower rates of depression and anxiety, greater coping skills, and higher levels of self-esteem. Researchers theorized that this was “perhaps because these stories provide larger narrative frameworks for understanding self and the world, and… a sense of continuity across generations in ways that promote a secure identity.”

Money does not seem like a very touchy-feely subject, but financial therapists say that fights around it have less to do with money itself than with other emotional hot-button issues, such as the values we want to pass on to our children.

“I often joke that in my next life, I’d like to come back as my husband… married to me,”