“What makes love last?” Do numbers have the answer?

     “What makes love last?” Do numbers have the answer? A review of Dr. Gottman's book, 

“What makes Love last? How to build trust and avoid betrayal: Secrets from the Love Lab” 

     Life is a paradox. When you think of love, do you think of numbers?  When I think of love, I think of warm ~  caring feelings, an embrace, a kiss. I think about the positive personal vibrational interaction between two people.

     Dr. John Gottman looks at love through a “trust metric,”

Resistance to the flow of money …

Pondering the first question: 

Resistance to the flow of money …

The class’s answer to the first question was almost universally “what … I don’t know.” They know that they want money but they haven’t been able to make a connection between career and life style. They equate career with a job. No one helped them think of career as mission or purpose for their life. 

They see career as clocking in, clocking out and 

picking up a paycheck.

I remember that when I graduated college with a BA degree in liberal arts,