Four behaviors predict divorce with uncanny accuracy
Psychologist John Gottman spent decades videotaping couples argue, then tracked who divorced. Four behaviors kept showing up in couples who split: criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling. Of the four, Gottman found contempt — sneering, mocking, treating a partner as beneath you — was the single strongest predictor.
— John Gottman, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail — 1994
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