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How to Lovehack Your Marriage, With Psychologist Eli Finkel

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

CHAPTER

Making External Attributions for Your Partner's Bad Behavior

In your book, there's a section called 'love hacks' that can help couples improve their marriage. One of them is to make external attributions for bad behaviour by our partner. The author says this gives us more latitude in how we interpret what she did. She also believes it allows the couple to set high expectations and be realistic with each other.

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