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Just Friends? Let Me Read Between the Lines

By Steve Friedman — 2019

How can a spurned lover make his case? In this essay — the first Modern Love column ever published, exactly 15 years ago — one writer counts the ways.

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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Lori Gottlieb
2014
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Famed Author Gary Chapman Talks Love, Marriage, Sex

Relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude: "How can I help you?" "How can I enrich your life?" "How can I be a better husband to you," if it's a marriage. "How can I be a better wife to you?" And what we want to do is to enhance each other's lives.

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Luiza Oleszczuk
2012
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Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages

One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.

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Helen Fisher
2015
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Managing vs. Resolving Conflict in Relationships: The Blueprints for Success

In The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Dr. John Gottman’s research proves that 69% of problems in a relationship are unsolvable. These may be things like personality traits your partner has that rub you the wrong way, or long-standing issues around spending and saving money.

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Marni Feuerman
2017
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Intimacy Exists Outside of Just Sex—Here Are 4 Other Kinds

There are at least four types of intimacy that don't involve sex or touch at all—but are just as impactful in a romantic partnership.

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Acamea Deadwiler
2020
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Why Couples Fight: Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

We think most couples wait too long to get help, so we want to bring the simple practices of a conscious partnership into the mainstream so people know how to be in a marriage before they enter one.

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Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt
2012
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Abraham Maslow on Keeping Romantic Love Alive

Maslow intuitively predicted the latest findings from positive psychology.

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Edward Hoffman
2020
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Although Two, Live as One

Amma’s advice for couples.

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Mata Amritandamayi (Amma)
2018
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Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel

From the New Yorker Festival, the couples therapist and podcast host discusses infidelity, apologies, and the problem with wedding vows these days.

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Alexandra Schwartz
2018
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Healing Relationships Through Compassion and Connection

Applying Buddhist teachings to emotional healing with relationships, marriage, and lust.

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Tara Brach
2017
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