Copyright © 1999, 2015 by John Mordechai Gottman, Ph.D., and Nan Silver

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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Harmony Books is a registered trademark, and the Circle colophon is a trademark of Random House LLC.

The anecdotes in this book are based on Dr. Gottman’s research. Some of the couples are composites of those who volunteered to take part in his studies. In all cases, names and identifying information have been changed.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1999.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from After the Honeymoon by Daniel B. Wile, copyright © 1988 by Daniel B. Wile. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gottman, John Mordechai.
The seven principles for making marriage work / by John Gottman, and Nan Silver.—Second edition.
pages    cm
1. Marriage. 2. Married people—Psychology. 3. Communication in marriage. 4. Man-woman relationships. I. Silver, Nan. II. Title.
HQ734.G7136 2014
306.81—dc23
2014034168

ISBN 978-0-553-44771-2
eBook ISBN 978-1-101-90291-2

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