Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
Researchers are interested in whether who you’re communicating with and how you’re interacting affect how likely you are to lie.
Discussing some key topics before – or even after – they move in together can help couples successfully navigate this step.
The five widely accepted lovely languages are words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts of service and receiving gifts.
Most marriage and health studies have focused on married men and women. But more recent studies examine relationships in which partners have the same gender identity, the same biological sex and who are gender diverse.
It’s not logical to believe your relationship is “meant to be.” But believing in destined love may have evolved as a way to keep couples together long enough to reproduce and raise children.
In families that are facing economic insecurity, fathers are more likely to experience depressive symptoms that can lead to conflict.
Go easy on your friend next time they forget about the plans you made or the favour they promised.
Intimate partner violence can take many forms – and it doesn’t always fit society’s stereotypes.
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