George Blair-West: 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce
ジョージ・ブレア=ウェスト: 幸せな結婚生活を築き、離婚を避ける3つの方法
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and Thomas Holmes developed an inventory
トマス・ホームズは
human experiences that we could have.
一覧を作りました
「配偶者との死別」です
Three, marital separation.
その次は「配偶者との別居」です
what comes in number seven on the list,
7番目の出来事が必要です
in an institution.
has been counted twice.
言う人もいるでしょう
作られた当時は
pretty much equated to a marriage.
結婚とほぼ同義でした
I'm going to be including
common-law marriages
soon hopefully to become marriages.
同性同士の交際も含みます
with same-sex couples,
関わりますが
to talk about are no different.
概ね 当てはまります
is better than cure.
優れていることは知られています
tetanus, whooping cough, measles.
百日咳、はしかの予防接種をしますね
for melanoma, stroke, diabetes --
意識向上キャンペーンなどは
経験するものには触れません
our current divorce rate.
現在の離婚率です
どうしてでしょう?
our policymakers don't believe
こう思っているのでしょう
and the way relationships are built
関係の築き方については
are Generation X.
X世代の人々です
about these issues,
彼らと話していると
分かります
なぜ分からないんだ?
people attract other people
関係の築き方を
そうでもないんですよ
analytical and skeptical generation,
どの世代よりも情報に精通して
of any generation before them.
情報に基づいた決断をする世代です
I get a very different reaction.
違う反応が返ってきます
have relationships that last?
知りたがるのです
the post- "romantic destiny" era with me,
受け容れられる皆さんのために
for preventing divorce.
お話ししましょう
to prevent divorce at two points:
2回あります
in an established relationship;
関係にひびが入ってからです
before we have children.
関係を結び 子供を持つ前です
お話しします
on their devices a day.
デバイスを使っています
their face-to-face relationships.
影響しているという人もいます
the hookup culture,
カジュアルセックスの文化もあります
the 20-somethings that I work with
how it is often easier for them
意味のある会話をするよりも
気が楽だと言うのも
of the institution of marriage.
セックスをすることです
and get all moral on me,
言いましょう
in the American Public Report,
アメリカ公共報告書によると
婚前交渉をしていました
these relationships are happening later.
高くなっているのはいいことです
at an average age for women of 20
男性は平均23歳で
どうでしょう?
男性は32歳です
the older you are when you get married,
結婚する時期が遅ければ遅いほど
良い理由は何でしょう?
the other two preventers of divorce
離婚を防ぐ他の2つの要因が
to go with tertiary education.
これらは互いに関連しています
kind of get mixed up together.
互いに関係しています
until at least the age of 25.
成長を続けるからです
and what you're thinking
何を考えているかは
to my mind, is personality.
私にとって最重要なのが性格です
your personality at the age of 50.
相関しません
your personality at the age of 50.
相関するのです
who got married young why they broke up,
別れた理由を尋ねると
of rapid change and maturation.
成熟を経験する10年だからです
before you get married is older.
「年を取ること」です
and relationship researcher,
ジョン・ゴットマンは
with a happy, successful marriage.
相関する要因を多く教えてくれます
self-destruct, if this problem is present.
81%の婚姻関係が破綻します
to talk about it here
ここでお話ししたい理由は
you can evaluate while you're dating.
推し量りうるものだからです
that were the most stable and happy
安定して幸せな関係性というのは
the couple shared power.
と言います
overseas trips, buying a car,
車の購入や子をもうけるなどの
drilled down on this data,
より深く見ていくと
were generally pretty influenceable.
かなり受けやすいと分かりました
two options here, isn't there?
多いというものです
影響を受けやすいですか?
尊敬できるからです
in the decision-making process.
その敬意を忘れないでください
why couples come in to see me
連れ添った夫婦が
for 30 or 40 years.
度々 興味を惹かれます
the infirmities and illness of old age.
弱って 病にかかりやすい時です
focused on caring for each other.
特に注力する時期なのです
that have bugged them for years.
許すこともあります
even infidelities,
不貞さえも許します
on caring for each other.
集中するがゆえです
for this is reliability,
「頼りがい」―
to do what they say they're going to do?
遂行すると信頼できるかどうか
verbally attacked by somebody,
言葉で攻撃されたら
a really disabling illness,
大きな不自由に苦しんでいたら
and do what needs to be done
すべきことを行って
cared for and protected?
感じさせてくれるか
isn't doing that for you --
そうしてくれず
to do that for them --
そうしているとしたら
be better off out of it rather than in it.
ましなのではと思えるのです
when it really matters?
本当に必要な時に支えてくれますか?
8割程度でもいいでしょう
重要な局面で です
commit to do something for your partner.
約束する前によく考えましょう
as much as you can follow through
約束する方が
sound-good-in-the-moment
がっかりさせるよりもずっと良いです
to your partner, and you commit to it,
あなたがやると約束したなら
and high water to follow through.
持っておいてください
that I'm saying you can look for.
相手に見いだせればいいのですが
things that can be built
既存の関係性の中でも
the other parent of your children.
誰を選ぶかでしょう
and quirky thing.
不思議なものです
to a romantic, loving heart
愛情に溢れた心に加えて
思慮深い考えも必要です
decision of our life.
最も重要な決断なのですから
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
George Blair-West - PsychiatristDr. George Blair-West is an author, researcher and doctor specializing in psychiatry.
Why you should listen
Dr. George Blair-West specializes in psychiatry in private practice in Brisbane, Australia. He sub-specializes in trauma and relationship/sex therapy. His abiding interest is distilling the latest psychotherapeutic research, honing these insights for impactful delivery through his clinical work, and then sharing them with the greater population.
In the 1990s, as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Blair-West published widely on suicide and depression. Needing to lose weight himself, he then turned his focus to the overlooked research into the psychological forces that prevent weight loss. The bestselling book Weight Loss for Food Lovers: Understanding Our Minds and Why We Sabotage Our Weight Loss (translated into Dutch and Chinese) along with related research papers resulted in keynote addresses, a regular spot on the Australian breakfast show Today and media appearances around the world. A children's book on teaching healthy eating habits followed, and in 2010 Blair-West was named one of the "top 20 most influential obesity experts in the world."
Blair-West's 2013 novel The Way of The Quest received three international awards and was about the "how to" of finding one's meaning and purpose in life while building healthy relationships.
Helping people make sense of relationships is Blair-West's most important work. Drawing on his 25 years as a relationship therapist, he is currently writing his fourth book, How to Make the Biggest Decision of Your Life with his daughter Jiveny Blair-West, a dating coach. He and his wife Penny, a psychologist, celebrated 30 years of marriage in 2018.
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