Although this concept is a popular metaphor used for romantic relationships, it can apply to all basic social dynamics—from ...

Building and maintaining a meaningful relationship takes more than grand gestures and picture-perfect moments. It's often the smaller things that add up and create the kind of connection that keeps ...

As years pass, many people find comfort in routines and familiar patterns. While routines provide stability, being too rigid can make it hard to adapt to other people's needs and preferences. Friends ...

Comfort Omovre lists the small habits she has observed in romantically successful couples in her more than three years ...

For many of us, the quality of our close relationships determines how good we feel about ourselves, and about life in general. Though we usually think about closeness to mean the same as intimacy, ...

After nearly four decades of helping on-the-brink couples repair their marriages, I’ve learned a thing or two about why some relationships succeed while others fail. Interestingly, there is one common ...

But why is that? What is it about our relationships that make them so central to our lives? According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he ...

Meg Tuohey is a psychologist, relationship expert, and founder of Making Relationships Work, where she pioneered a groundbreaking method for repairing marriages with only the wife’s participation. She ...