Healthy relationships regularly produce joy, and joy keeps the relationship healthy.
You\'ll learn new skills including how to: return to joy more quickly after disconnection create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy..
That\'s why each chapter includes 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting.
Some couples do them naturally, but anyone can learn.
But how do you ensure that you\'re experiencing joy regularly? Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered four Habits that keep joy regular and problems small.
When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy.
The length of time between moments of shared joy When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage.
Joy Gap /joi gap/ (n.) -1.
It\'s actually the size of the marriage\'s joy gap .
It\'s not conflict resolution skills.
What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? Surprisingly, it\'s not healthy communication.
Here the authors teach those essential skills.
Healthy relationships regularly produce joy, and joy keeps the relationship healthy
