The Ability to Compromise: Couples Get More Credit Than They Deserve

The ability to compromise is different from an unwillingness, based on principles and values

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
3 min readFeb 2

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Have you heard the one about how people in marriages and romantic relationships learn to compromise? Or the corollary of that — if you want to learn how to compromise, you need to have experience…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. Author of “Singled Out.” Harvard PhD www.belladepaulo.com