Noah Larson

Yeah, so, you know, there were some interesting findings.

I think one was that savoring not only benefits couples' relationships, but it even has benefits for their individual health and wellbeing.

So we found that when couples savored more, they reported having better quality of life,

And savoring also protected couples' stress against mental health difficulties.

So I think that's one interesting thing is that this joint savoring process, it can even benefit couples' mental health and protect their mental health from stress.

Yeah, so there's definitely some similarities between savoring and gratitude.

And both of these are kind of considered relationship maintenance processes or tools in the research.

So they're both kind of two different activities that, you know, an individual or a couple could do together to try to enhance their relationship.

So gratitude is something that we've looked at a little bit.

And, you know, that can kind of be incorporated in the savoring process as well.

Kind of, you know, as a couple talking about, you know, things your partner did for you that you're thankful for and expressing that gratitude.

But you could also kind of savor events that might not necessarily involve gratitude.

Yeah, so maybe there's times where one person in the couple wants to savor or is savoring and the other partner is not.

That's not something we've had the chance to look into yet, but something we're hoping to in the future, kind of looking at these discrepancies between partners.

But certainly we'd expect that it would be more beneficial if both partners were savoring.

There has been some research in the past when researchers were looking into savoring just as this kind of personal and individual process that even savoring by yourself tends to have benefits for your relationship.

So there is still benefit even if your partner is not interested in savoring and still doing that yourself.

Yeah.

So I think, you know, I think there's, you know, multiple things couples could do.

But I think really kind of establishing at least one time a week to sit down with your partner and, you know, be free of distractions.