The happiest couples do “sleep on it.”
The most happily married couples have conflict just like every other couple. But they have discovered the beauty of “going to bed mad”… and finding that the issue at hand is actually much better and/or easier to resolve in the morning.
As I interviewed couples for The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, one of the most surprising things I learned was that although the happiest couples usually advise young couples to “not go to bed mad,” they don’t actually take their own advice! Instead, if it is late and things are getting nowhere, they sleep on it … and their relationships were strengthened because of it!
Now, before you think I’m ignoring the Bible, let me share something else I found.
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