relationships

For many, romantic partnerships are at the heart of our well-being in life. Yet, these same relationships can be fraught or hard to maintain. Spouses become bored with each other, grow in different directions, or are no longer sexually satisfied, and they separate or divorce. Infidelity among committed partners is also strikingly common, with somewhere between 20-25% of couples reporting at least…

When one partner manages the mental load and the other waits for direction, resentment builds. Here’s why “just tell me what to do” damages connection—and what to do instead.

It’s been seven years since my divorce. I’ve gone on more than 100 first dates. I try to normalize my dating foibles, cringeworthy as they may be. If I can do this, so can you.

When I looked around that room, at all the marriages, love affairs and divorces, everything and everyone was as you would have expected back in 2001 ... An army dude once told me, “A speech should be like a lady’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the main points”, and I said, “Wait, can we just clarify what the main points of a lady are – is it her butt or some other, n…

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