What is the best predictor of a long and happy relationship? Coming from similar backgrounds? Common interests, ambitions and values? A healthy sex life? Support from friends and family? How much you love each other? All of these are useful, but ultimately not decisive. Numerous research projects have come to the same conclusion. It doesn't matter what problems a couple face, or how difficult they are; the best predictor for happiness is how many relationships skills they possess. And the good news is those skills can be taught.
In particular Marshall will be explaining the five key relationship skills for a happy and successful relationship: 'At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, they recruited seventeen men and women who still passionately loved their partners after two decades of marriage. They showed them a picture of their beloved, scanned their brains and recorded which part of the brains lit up. Next they repeated the exercise but this time used people who’d recently fallen in love. Exactly the same part of the brain lit up. So how do these long-established couples still feel passionately about each other? This is what I'll be covering at this talk,' says Marshall
Andrew G Marshall is the UK's 'best known marital therapist' (Radio 4) and his work has been described as 'insightful' by the Evening Standard and 'Wonderfully comforting…… someone has just made sense of me' by the Guardian. He is the author of nine best-selling books on relationships including 'I love you but I'm not in love with you' – which has been translated into fifteen different languages – and 'Build a Life Long Love Affair: Seven steps to revitalising your relationship.'
Whether you and your partner have been together for years, just starting out or you're single and wondering how to make lasting connections, this talk will be full of helpful insights.
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