People in a strong, Ha Happy relationship experience five…

Page 45. People in a strong, Ha Happy relationship experience five times more positive emotion and negative emotion. You can increase the positive emotion or reduce the negative emotion your relationship to achieve the 5 to 1 positivity ratio.

— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

In the book

Keep the balance high and the relationship can survive almost anything; let it run dry and small frictions become fatal. The research even puts a number on it: people in strong, happy relationships tend to run about five positive exchanges for every negative one, so the work is partly just to keep that ratio healthy. And the first deposit is always yours to make — in any true togetherness there is no free ride; to receive, you first have to give, and you can only really give if you care more for the other than for yourself. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)

Also belongs to

• The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
• The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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