There is the often facile social media narrative of overcoming adversity in marriage. And then there is the reality.
How social media is fueling an intense form of romantic obsession
The digital world is primed to fuel episodes of profound infatuation known as limerence.
What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
What if marriage is not the social good that so many believe and want it to be?
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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'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.
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
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Against the Couple-Form | LIES Journal
Libidinal flows cut through the social world. Amorous and sexual relations do not exist in some domain safely taped off from the rest of society. Rather they are constituent elements of nearly every aspect of social life. Desire flows and circulates amongst places of employment, intellectual debates, political organizing, artistic circles, playgrounds, and cemeteries. The elderly patient grabs at the breast of a nurse hunched over him. A governmental official strips his newly hired intern down to her leopard print thong during an important briefing in his office. The incarcerated man holds his hand up to the glass of the visiting booth, attempting to touch his wife after twenty years of their bodily separation. These flows of libidinal desire operate within and amongst broader social mechanisms, such that they help animate the dynamics of economic and political life. Often a locus of politics, desire permeates the so-called ‘public’ terrain.
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.
The World Files for Economic Divorce from America
What you do when your (trading) partner is abusive
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
A Typology of Insecurities in Non-monogamy
Because “jealousy” and “envy” aren’t all there is.
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Late-stage capitalism figured out how to monetize loneliness.Erase third spaces. Make going out too expensive. Work people too hard to keep up friendships.Then sell the emptiness back as dating apps, delivery, streaming, and subscriptions.Isolation as recurring revenue.…— sammy (@_itzsammy) October 28, 2026
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve."
