What Wedding Planning Actually Tells You About Your Marriage
Almost every engaged couple is told some version of the same thing: don’t let wedding planning stress on…
The Magic Five Hours: The Weekly Ritual That Separates Marriages That Improve From Ones That Drift
The magic five hours is the most quietly demanding piece of advice in relationship research, and also the…
Life After Divorce: The Six Paths People Actually Take, According to a 30-Year Study
Almost everything written about life after divorce assumes there is one path through it: a bad stretch, then…
Loyalty Binds in Blended Families: Why Your Stepchild Pulls Away Right After a Good Day
Loyalty binds in blended families explain why a stepchild can pull away sharply right after a good day…
Dating Dealbreakers: Why Your List Is Scoring the Wrong Things
Your dating dealbreakers are almost certainly measuring the wrong things — and there is a large, unglamorous body…
Stress Spillover in Marriage: Why Your Worst Fights Have Nothing to Do With Your Marriage
Stress spillover in marriage is the reason your worst fight this month probably had nothing to do with…
How to Tell Kids About Divorce: What to Say at Every Age
Learning how to tell kids about divorce is one of the hardest conversations a parent will ever plan…
The Sandwich Generation: How to Protect Your Marriage While Caring for Kids and Parents
If you are raising your own kids while also fielding calls about your parents’ medications, appointments, and finances,…
Green Flags in Dating: What a Healthy Relationship Actually Looks Like
We spend so much energy scanning for red flags that most of us never learned to recognize the…
Lonely in Marriage: The Quiet Ache of Emotional Distance
Being lonely in marriage is one of the most disorienting feelings there is, precisely because you are not…
Gray Divorce After 50: The Real Risk Is the Math
Gray divorce after 50 is the only kind of divorce still on the rise in America, and almost…
Maternal Gatekeeping: How the ‘Better’ Parent Crowds the Other Out
Maternal gatekeeping is the quiet, often well-intentioned way one parent — frequently but not always the mother —…