Shared everyday experiences can counteract worldview-driven repulsion in couples

Evidence

Connecting: Work consciously to see that there are other areas that connect you as a couple, where there are common interests and shared views. Consciously notice what is beautiful, beneficial and strengthening in the relationship, what you appreciate in the other person. The different worldviews (if they trigger strong negative emotions) create a repulsion reaction, like magnets with the same polarity. You need good common ground and good everyday experiences that connect and strengthen you as a couple to counteract this. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 484

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience