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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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What It’s Like to Date When You Have Kids

How do you find time? Is it better to date someone else who also has kids? And when should you introduce them?

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Sophia Benoit
2019
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An Astrologer Explains Why You Shouldn't Look at Your Crush's Chart

When you fixate on what others are or aren’t doing based on their astrology, you can weave a narrative that’s both convincing and convenient, but true intimacy can't be developed when you're operating from ideas about what you think you know about a person.

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Jessica Lanyadoo
2017
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7 Relationship Maintenance Tips for Healthy Couples

The question of what makes a healthy couple has been the subject of much research, writing, and theorizing. Through her years of experience as a couple therapist, Dr.

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Jessica Dore
2018
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Four Ways Psychological Rigidity Hurts Relationships

Psychological flexibility is fundamental to healthy livingTrusted Source, so it's not surprising that within the context of romantic relationships, flexibility is also important for healthy functioning.

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Jessica Dore
2016
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The Ambition Gap

Young, single women in the U.S. are outearning their male peers and outnumbering men in high-paying management jobs. But while you're climbing the ranks at work, a growing number of men seem to be losing their drive.

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Lori Gottlieb
2013
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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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Helen Fisher: In the Digital World, We’re All Cavemen When It Comes to Love

Despite the swirling changes brought on by ubiquitous tech, we remain the same Homo sapiens who walked heart-to-heart and hand-in-hand through the African grasslands more than 2 million years ago. We love to fall in love.

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James Daly
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Romantic Realism: The Seven Rules to Help You Avoid Divorce

We expect love to be the source of our greatest joys. But, in practice, it is one of the most reliable routes to misery. Few forms of suffering are ever as intense as those we experience in relationships.

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Alain de Botton
2017
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