HOME TO ROOST ~ WHO RULES?
There’s an old story about a couple married 50 years, and he stands proudly in front in a portrait wearing a button that says, ”I rule the roost.” And she stands demurely behind with a button that says, “I rule the rooster.”
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In a group of 72 married couples who all expressed relative satisfaction in their relationships, researchers asked each person individually to identify a problem in their relationship that needed to be solved by both of them.
They isolated each couple together and asked them to hash out the problem — with no researchers present, but video recorders taping.
The tapes revealed:
”The women were communicating more powerful messages, and men were responding to those messages by agreeing or giving in,” psychologist David Vogel said in the study.
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”There’s been research that suggests that’s a marker of a healthy marriage — that men accept influence from their wives,” said human development expert Megan Murphy, in the study.
Source: Written by Fred Tasker.
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- 09.19.19 2:37
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