Ruth Institute Blog

Recently, I posted about Professor John Gottman.  He has a list of four things that predict divorce:  criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling.   He calls them the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Here’s a different sort of list.  It compiles various research studies and makes predictions about the likelihood of divorce given some more exotic variables such as occupation, the status of the children, hormonal levels and even facial expression in old photographs. Read more…