1. Love relationship researchers can predict who will divorce. Psychologists can not only predict which couples will divorce, they also know when. Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey’s marriage in American Beauty is a perfect example of typical mid-life marital problems. “These couples are alienated and avoidant. They are the people you see in a restaurant who are not talking to each other,” said University of California professor John Gottman. “They raise kids together, but there is not much going on with each other and they realize their marriage is empty. These couples stifle things and do not raise issues with their partner. Their marriages are a suppression of negative emotions and a lack of positive emotions. It is a very passive and distant relationship with no laughing, love or interest in each other. This style of suppression can cause intense loneliness that’s almost like dying.”
爱情专家可以看出哪些夫妻会走向离婚的道路,甚至知道他们分开的时间。