Jordan Peterson explains way to predict chance of divorce with '95% accuracy'

Unfortunately, it’s just the reality that not every couple is going to last forever.

Like, sure, you might look at your partner now and think everything’s perfect but you might just get the ick, spot a red flag or catch them cheating one day.

Of course, this doesn’t happen to everyone – I don’t want to sh*t on your parade. And a good bit of news is that the last official figures put the number of UK divorces at the lowest since 1971.

But either way, no one realistically wants to land themselves in an unhappy relationship, you’d at least hope you knew if things were going to go south.

And Jordan Peterson has explained a way of predicting the chance of divorce with ’95 percent accuracy’.

Although, not everyone agrees with what Peterson says. (Chris Williamson/Getty Images)

In a video from 'Jordan Peterson Lessons’ the (pretty controversial) psychologist discusses a study from Dr. John Gottman. He just so happens to be known as ‘the guy that can predict divorce with over 90 percent accuracy’ – now that’s an interesting title to bag.

Back in the 90s, the doc created a lab designed to look like a bed and breakfast where 130 couples were invited to spend a day doing regular stuff while under observation.

And Peterson outlined one of the scenarios that can show problems in a marriage.

“The woman goes over to the window, and she says, ‘oh look there’s a cardinal outside,’” he says, explaining how she might find interest or joy in this.

“The husband in this example has a two-by-two matrix of choices. One is: ‘Who the hell cares about your stupid bird?’

Apparently it's a key way to spot a likely divorce. (Getty Stock)

“The second one is, you go over and look at the bird right and the third one is you don’t make the contempt noise but you act it out.

“And the fourth one is you go over there like a civilised human being and you know that you’re interacting with someone that you care for and you take a look at the damn bird, you’re happy about it.”

He explains that if perhaps there’s ‘a whole monster underneath’ with unresolved problems or resentment (even if they reasoning can’t be recalled), then the partner wouldn’t go over.

Gottman calls things like this a ‘bid’ and the couples that stay together ‘respond to each other’s bids’.

“If one person wants to share some little trivial daily positive thing with the other,” Peterson says, “The other isn’t carrying a bloody cart load of resentment and is able to respond to that in a positive way.”

So, basically, if you keep on top of resolving problems in your relationship, no matter how minor, you’ll stay together. Supposedly.