Have a better marriage in 7 minutes?

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A psychologist out of Northwestern discovered the key to a happy marriage, and it applies to couples that have been married 2 years to 50 years. The secret: write out your argument. 120 couples were asked to literally write down the details to their most recent fight. Sixty wrote about their disagreement from the perspective of a neutral party. The other 60 wrote about their argument, but from their own perspective. At the end of the study, all the couples still fought, but the ones that wrote about their arguments from the perspective of a neutral party were less upset by their fights and reported more satisfaction. The 7 minute fix.