8 Quotes by John Gottman

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

Human nature dictates that it is virtually impossible to accept advice from someone unless you feel that that person understands you.

We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that.

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Discussions invariably end on the same note as they begin.

It's a myth that if you solve your problems you'll automatically be happy. We need to teach couples that they'll never solve most of their problems.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.