Millions of couples throughout the world are all too familiar with the way their partners – particularly the male – distances themselves when heated relationship conflict erupts.
Millions of couples throughout the world are all too familiar with the way their partners – particularly the male – distances themselves when heated relationship conflict erupts. The technical name for this conflict pattern is the demand/withdraw negative escalation cycle, or Husband Withdrawal for short. Left unchecked, Husband Withdrawal leads to more heated arguments that result in a pervasive attitude of contempt, which Dr. Gottman has found to be the number one predictor of divorce.
Read the article on The Gottman Institute Relationship Blog.
