For years, researchers have studied the chemistry between different couples. Many of the most successful attempts in understanding relationships have been in studying what goes wrong in failed marriages. There are many reports that distressed relationships are frequently illustrated by a wife becoming increasingly demanding and the husband in response withdrawing. In 2003, Swann, Rentfrow, and Gosling conducted a study to further determine what individual character combinations can be particularly detrimental to relationships. More specifically, they wanted to determine if couples in a relationship where the man was more verbally inhibited than the women suffered. The researchers hypothesized that distinct differences between partners in the degree of which their verbal responses are inhibited can result in how well the couple gets along in their relationship.
             Researchers conducted four investigations of people involved in romantic relationships to test the hypothesis that apparent dissimilarities in verbal inhibition can have a great cost on the communication in said relationships. The first three studies were intended to determine whether couples involved in relationships where the man was more inhibited would actually experiences more dissatisfaction. Particularly, the first study aimed to determine if couples in which the woman scored higher on the BLIRT Brief Loquaciousness and Interpersonal Responsiveness Test than their partner were less intimate than other couples. Study two intended to research the correlation between the BLIRT and the Big Five personality traits openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The third study addressed whether the attachment quality rather than verbal inhibition is responsible for the man-more-inhibited effect. Unlike the first three studies, the last study tested the precarious couple effect the belief that quiet, reserved men and women who speak their...