How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent Partner

Lessons from John Gottmann and 12 Years of Marriage

Eric Sentell
6 min readAug 2, 2020

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Photo by Foto Pettine on Unsplash

During my first month of marriage, twelve years ago now, I came home from work and sat down on the couch with the TV remote in hand, thinking my day was done.

I was happy to perform some handyman task if asked, but I certainly didn’t jump up to fold laundry when my wife put the…

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