Therapists, researchers, and regular folks share their life hacks for getting along with others or boosting their mental well-being. Often this advice sticks with me—and I revisit it through the years.
Divorce rates may be declining, but celebrations honoring the snipping of a marriage license have steadily gained popularity.
Still, we drifted further, each feeling less loved and less loving. We had always laughed, and now we didn’t. At least, not enough.
Men may be blindsided by divorce, but for the “walkaway” women who have put up with too much for too long, it’s been a long time coming.
What reforms could make Tennessee’s marriage laws even stronger for minors?
Couples therapists were asked: What’s one piece of advice you find yourself repeating? What’s one relationship lesson you swear by? What’s one truism you wish more couples understood?
Men are disappointing. I’ve heard it from so many of my female friends that I’ve lost count. The data backs it up too: Men are falling behind women on most of the metrics that matter, whether it’s being employed, graduating from high school and college, or just having friends.
To have and to hold: for richer, for poorer. It seems like a great idea when you’re young and in love but for many older women — especially those with their own money — marriage is less compelling. Can we not put a ring on it?
For decades, the conventional wisdom was that frequent sex was integral to a happy union. Experts coached couples on how to strengthen their marriages, often relying on the belief that healthy relationships included consistent sex with partners. In more recent years, however, both relationship experts and couples themselves have been gradually dismantling some of these commonly held views.
Americans are increasingly forgoing or delaying marriage — a dramatic shift from societal norms a generation ago.
A dramatic reversal has taken place on college campuses. Once male-dominated, they are now populated largely by women. There are 2.5 million fewer male than female undergraduates. There’s an even bigger gender gap in master’s degrees.
A more granular look at what the reality of dating looks and feels like for straight women can go a long way toward explaining why marriage rates are lower than policy scholars would prefer.
A friend of mine, a couples counselor, stopped by to see me after a long week. She sank into my couch, closed her eyes, and said: “You know what phrase I wish I could ban couples from saying? ‘I never said that.’”
This made me wonder about other phrases therapists wished couples would stop saying during conflicts.
This is a summary of the new legislation affecting family-law attorneys in Tennessee.
But being divorced must be lonely, women say. Aren’t I lonely?
Here is the truth: I have never been lonelier than I was when I was on the inside of a miserable marriage.