- Marriage can be hard, but couples therapists have tips to make it easier.
- Peter Pearson, PhD, and Ellyn Bader, PhD, run The Couples Institute in California. They’ve been married to each other for decades.
- I spoke to Pearson and Bader and learned some of the best strategies they use, both in their practice and in their own relationship.
- Those strategies include: choose your decision-making strategy, know the “why,” and listen with curiosity.