A wife’s nonchalance toward a potential threat to her relationship has tickled internet users.
The viral TikTok video, posted in December by Alex Quist, under the username @thequistfamily, shows his wife, Courtney, shopping at the grocery store as he texts her to say that a woman is flirting with him in another aisle. Courtney checks her phone, reads the message and continues shopping without a change in expression. The clip has received more than 6.1 million views and over 155,000 likes.
Building Trust in Relationships Is Paramount
The Gottman Institute, led by Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Robert Levenson, has been conducting research about relationship dynamics for over 40 years. The research showed that building trust and loyalty within a relationship are critical processes toward deeper love.
Gottman said there are three phases of love at which a relationship might progress or deteriorate. The first phase, predictably, is about falling in love and the “cascade” of hormones and neurotransmitters that prompt infatuation with a new …