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Contempt as relationship poison

Contempt—the conviction that your partner is beneath you, worthy of mockery or disgust—is the most corrosive poison in relationships because it erases the basic regard on which repair depends, and once established, it's deeply difficult to reverse. Couples researcher John Gottman identified it as the single strongest predictor of divorce, which is why catching it early matters more than almost any other relational pattern.

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