5+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1416+ words) Drs. John and Julie Gottman are often referred to as the "Einsteins of love" " and for good reason, too. Their dedication to the field of relationship research is unprecedented. For decades, they've studied thousands of couples, carefully observing the habits,…...

16+ hour, 9+ min ago  (326+ words) Physical attraction dominates relationship research: who we choose, why we choose them, and how long that initial pull endures. But this framing captures only part of the picture. In long-term relationships, the question of whether a partner finds you beautiful…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (977+ words) Research shows that men live longer and healthier lives if they have a spouse, while women don't see the same support in prolonging their length and quality of life. Marriage Benefits Men's Life Expectancy More Than Women's A certain type…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (300+ words) For decades, marriage and long-term partnership were presented less as choices and more as milestones. Graduate, build a career, get married, and have children. That was the rigid road map that women were implicitly and explicitly expected to follow. But…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (630+ words) Hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to love. When a relationship ends, it's not uncommon to look back and ask yourself, "How did I miss that?" or, "Why didn't I see it sooner?" From the outside, the warning signs can look…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (321+ words) By Adaira Landry, MD MEd, To better understand the journey after a young adult dies from cancer, I spoke with Nguyen-Wong about her abrupt transition from wife, to caregiver, to widow. He was hospitalized and overcame multiple medical complications, a…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (171+ words) By Virginia La Torre Jeker, J. D. , Jinming Zhang, a Chinese citizen who became a U. S. tax resident in 2017, received approximately $287, 108 in wedding gifts from her family in China that very same year. While these gifts are not "taxable income," the law requires…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (658+ words) The cancellation email is never the beginning. It starts months earlier, with tiny shifts you might miss because you're busy delivering great work. The warning signs hide. Your best client gets quieter in meetings. Their responses feel forced. Someone else…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (762+ words) Love is often represented as a feeling or emotion that you passively experience, but this is simply untrue. Love is a "doing" word. It"s a verb. A set of actions. A pattern of attention, repair and effort repeated over…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (809+ words) This is because, while brutal honesty sounds virtuous in theory, in many scenarios, relentless truth-telling is more likely to damage closeness than strengthen it. As such, a loving relationship will demand awareness that, sometimes, not every truth needs to be…...