Relationships don’t usually fall apart overnight. The distance creeps in little by little until one day, you realize things aren’t the same anymore. Maybe you don’t talk as much, or you’ve stopped ...

Ghosting is practically baked into our modern culture—it’s almost too easy to cut off contact with someone you don’t feel like talking to. But learning how to get over being ghosted—whether it was a ...

Relationships are naturally full of highs and lows, but perhaps the thing couples complain about the most are the lulls. Boredom is often viewed as a destructive, yet inevitable, force in long-term ...

As most of us know by now, dating is complex and often filled with disappointments or false starts — but sometimes, you meet someone and find an instant connection so profound, it feels almost as if ...

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Brittany Luse is an award-winning journalist, on-air host and cultural critic. She is currently the host of It's Been a Minute from NPR. Previously, Luse hosted For Colored Nerds, The Nod and Sampler ...

This selection appears courtesy of EWTN Publishing. The full book is available here. To get along better with everybody — well, almost everybody — the first question to answer is “Why?” After all, ...

Love is wonderful, love is joy, love is the greatest thing in the world… Love is also an enormous pain in the ass. Marriage is hard work. (Older people are nodding right now while young people are ...

Once upon a time, shortly after the earth cooled, I dated a very corporate fellow. He wore suits every day but loved the idea of going out with an artsy writer. He loved that I lived in New York ...

Breaking up is horrible. Not only are you dealing with the complicated emotions of parting ways with someone you once loved more than anyone, you're mourning the future you once pictured together and ...

It’s easy for romance to take a backseat as we navigate the complexities of life in our later years. Familiarity, life changes, and diminished confidence can all impact our relationships. "When we ...