01/19/2021
Repair is less about fixing what is broken and more about getting back on track.
Dr. John Gottman refers to repair attempts as “the secret weapon” of emotionally intelligent couples. What separates stable couples from others is not that their repair attempts are necessarily more skillful or better thought out, but that their repair attempts get through to their partner. Because repair attempts can be difficult to recognize, it's important to listen for them before a conflict conversation is engulfed in negativity.
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