Love Map & Open-Ended Card Decks

These cards enable partners to connect emotionally, and increase intimacy and understanding in a fun, gentle way.

What will I learn?

In this challenge, you will learn how to have a positive perspective in your relationship and strengthen your friendship with your partner, which is at the core of any great relationship. Learn to:

Deepen understanding of your partner's inner world.
Increase emotional connection and intimacy.
Fun, gentle way to enhance relationship knowledge.
Build a "mental map" of each other's preferences and experiences.
Improve relationship stability by knowing partner deeply.
Use Gottman Method principles to grow closer.
Create rituals to build the life you want in your relationship

This deck of cards for couples helps partners connect emotionally, and increase intimacy and understanding in a fun, gentle way.

Research shows that a powerful predictor of relationship stability is whether couples allocate “mental room” for their partner’s world. This means having a mental map of the relationship and its history, and knowing each partner’s past and present concerns, preferences, experiences, and reality. Make your “map” with these cards — they bring you closer by getting to know each other in ways you may not have realized were important.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy is designed to disarm conflicting verbal communication, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy in conflicting situations, and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

Drs. John and Julie Gottman developed nine components of healthy relationships known as The Sound Relationship House Theory. The first of these components is how building Love Maps helps partners connect emotionally.

Build Love Maps
How well do you know your partner’s inner psychological world, his or her history, worries, stresses, joys, and hopes?