Information on Global Marriages

Happy Marriages

So you have seen happy marriages and you want to know how they do that so you can copy it for yourself.

You know that a good marriage has tremendous health benefits for the participants, and you would like to partake, but you look around and you see a ton of self-help books and Disney movies which indicate that boy and girl will live happily ever after, because the Fairy Godmother will intervene.

Somehow self-help and Disney just do not fit with what your real life relationship experiences say about happy marriage.

Because even the folks best suited for each other need to work on their thinking and feelings and behaviors regularly in order to assure happy marriages.

So what knowledge is available that can guide us without sugar coating? Robert Epstein,Ph.D., has some very interesting ideas about that question.

John Gottman,Ph.D., has done long term research on the Masters of Marriage, and has developed some exercises that help couples based on his research, and Helen Fisher,Ph.D. has done some very powerful research using fMRI or functional magenetic resonance images of folks who are newly in love.

Dr. Fisher suggests that three brain systems are active in the early days of love, the lust, trust, and love systems, and each of the three systems has a hormone or neurotransmitter associated with them.

So engaging in behaviors like athletics, which increases testosterone for both men and women, and is associated with the lust brain system increases the possibility of...lust, for example.

Fisher also says that we have our best chance for successful relationship when we match up personality wise too, and you can determine your personality type by completing a profile at