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How Expectations Are Shaping Your Relationship
Have high expectations for your relationship? They might mean that you're missing out on chances to feel grateful.

Couples Who Go To Bed At Different Times Are Way Happier For 7 Reasons
Going to bed at different times has been shown to be better for your relationship for a variety of fascinating reasons.

Loveloop - AI-Powered Relationship App
365+ daily tasks, psychological assessments, mini-games, and real-time partner synchronization
I'm a psychologist who studies couples: People in the happiest relationships have 5 things in common with their partner
Opposites may attract, but similarities are usually what determine if a relationship can stand the test of time, says Mark Travers, a psychologist who studies couples. Here's what the happiest couples share in common with their partner.

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal
Many unhealthy relationship habits are baked into our culture and we end up accepting them as normal. Here are a few ways we do this.

Automated Intimacy
This isn’t capitalism’s first loneliness epidemic. But in the 21st century, relationship simulators like Replika are here with the solution: your very own AI lover.

We Chose Frictionless. It Left Us Empty.
On what my parents understood about creating relationships that we have forgotten — and why the inconvenience is the whole point.

Extraordinary Passion: Couple Meditation
We've Lost the Spaces That Foster Friendship
We keep offering individual fixes for loneliness while ignoring the disappearance of the spaces where adults once built real relationships.

How to Be Someone People Love to Talk to
Make sure the other person walks away better for having met you

Why Being Bored Is Good | The Walrus
Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?


How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention

Three ways boredom can actually be a benefit
A little boredom can be good for you.

When Sturdy Love Is What You Need (Published 2018)
There is the often facile social media narrative of overcoming adversity in marriage. And then there is the reality.

Be jealous. Make demands. Want more.
Here's to a passionate nonmonogamy where things aren't always fair and people are needy.
