Brené with Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman on The Love Prescription, Part 1 of 3

Hi, everyone. I'm Brene Brown, and this is unlocking us. Welcome to a three part special with doctors John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman. Whoo. Damn. I'm telling you. I've got my sisters here. So let me tell you how this is gonna work. We've got two parts with the Gottmans, and we're going through their brand new book, The Love Prescription Seven Days. This is for couples are two people who are trying to grow more intimacy, connection, and joy. And I've interviewed the Gottmans before. We had them in February 2021 to talk about what makes love last. And I can tell you that we've been talking about that conversation since we recorded the podcast. So this is, again, their new book, The Love Prescription. It came out yesterday, and we're excited to talk to them about it. So first two episodes, me with John and Julie. And then third episode, me, Ashley, and Barrett breaking down what we learned, what we thought was hard, what I'm too scared to do. It's just too scary. So we'll have a sister's reaction episode as a third episode. I'm glad y'all are here. At Criminal, we've made it a tradition every December to dedicate an episode entirely to animals who are really going for it. And Tony, what happened when you pulled over? Nothing out of the ordinary until I saw the cat on the back of the roof behind the luggage carrier. Listen to our fifth annual Animals episode on Criminal wherever you get your podcasts. Before we jump in to this first episode, let me tell you a little bit about our guest. Doctor John Gottman previously served as executive director of the Relationship Research Institute and is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington, where he founded the Love Lab. He is world renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, has conducted forty years of groundbreaking research with thousands of couples. His work has earned him numerous major awards, and he was named one of the top 10 most influential therapists of the past quarter century. He is the author of many books, including several that we've talked about here. Doctor Julie Schwartz Gottman is president of the Gottman Institute and cofounder of Affective Software. She's a highly respected clinical psychologist. She was named Washington State psychologist of the year and received the 2021 psychotherapy networker lifetime achievement award. That Lifetime Achievement Award, I'm telling you right now, from Psychotherapy Networker. No joke. She is the author and coauthor of many best selling books, including Eight Dates, 10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, The Man's Guide to Women, and Baby Makes Three. These folks are very serious. I mean, they talk like therapists. You know, like, we can really understand what they're saying, but their stuff is so grounded in data. Let me just start by saying this. They can predict with 90% accuracy. This is based on work done in …