4 Mind-Blowing Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship (All Backed by Science!)

0:00My wife and I just celebrated our 19-year wedding anniversary in 22 years together.

0:06And it got me thinking about the science going on behind the scenes on why we still like each other.

0:11Why do we keep wanting to do this?

0:13Why do we have such a healthy and thriving relationship?

0:18Because as you know, relationships can be incredibly complex, dysfunctional, but they can also be powerful and loving and supportive and add to our longevity in ways that nothing else can.

0:32And so I put together four mind-blowing science-backed ways to strengthen your relationship.

0:40And I dug around in our relationship to find out some of these things that we were doing, often unconsciously, that many other successful couples are doing as well.

0:50And I think that these are going to be incredibly helpful, but they're also going to be fascinating.

0:57Number one, to kick things off, is based on an intriguing study that was titled, Let's Stay Home and Watch TV, The Benefits of Shared Media Use for Close Relationships that was published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.