Dr. Barton Goldsmith
You want to know the best way to help you kids achieve a great relationship in their own adult lives? All you have to do is model a good relationship for them. How you and your partner treat each other will form how your children choose their own partners, whether they like it or not.
This is serious stuff. If a child is brought up in a home where the parents cheat, it will be hard for that child to trust others later on in life. Children from that kind of background tend to fear in their adult lives that their spouse will do the same thing their parents did. Any romantic relationship or close friendship is automatically suspect, and they end up living in a world of deception and anxiety.
If you and your partner speak with raised voices, yell or behave disrespectful