Seeing reminders to “check on your strong friend” online over and over are nice, but what does that really look like and how can you do it?
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Ultimate Horoscope Guide for Love & Dating in 2022
Wondering what the rest of this year has in store for your love life? Read for both your sun and rising sign.
On Loving Better: An Expert’s Guide to More Caring Relationships
Explore ways we love best, where we fall short, and how we can learn to love better.
On Extending Grace: What To Do When You Find Yourself Judging Your Friends
Recognizing that your friends’ actions or decisions are evoking something in you is the first step.
Exploring Waves of Love in the Digital Age With Danny Ocean
Venezuelan singer Danny Ocean talks about new album @dannocean, love in the digital age, and the meaning behind his most famous lyric.
How To Love Yourself A Little More This Month
In this month of love, we ask: do you need to love yourself first, before you can be open to love from someone else?
How Venus & Mercury Retrograde Winter 2022 Will Affect Your Love Life
These retrograde transits are giving us a lot to think about. Don’t be afraid to do the shadow work.
The Scaries: On Getting Over the Fear of Speaking Up During Sex
This roundtable explores advice for the bedroom from a human sexuality expert, intimacy coach, clinician and author. Let’s learn to ask for what we want. By Laura Wheatman Hill As much as we’d like to have a psychic, unspoken connection with our partners, when it comes to sex, sometimes we have to let go of…
The Scaries: On the Fear of Being The Toxic One
We all have the capacity to be toxic in love and friendship. The sooner we all accept that we have likely been the toxic one at one point or another, the sooner we can love—ourselves and others—best.
The Scaries: On the Fear of Navigating Internal Boundaries
It’s normal that many of us fear the deep self-exploration required to establish clear boundaries in our partnerships, but it’s also of the utmost importance. Words by Maura McNamara. Illustrations by Nadia Snopek. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness,” writes Khalil Gibran in The Prophet. “Let the winds of heaven dance around you. Love…
The Scaries: On the Fear of Letting Go
‘Sunk cost’ love describes repeatedly investing in a dead-end relationship. In this piece, we explore the fear of letting go & come to terms with why it’s ok to do so.
The Scaries: Limerence — That Wild Obsession With Your Partner
The state of scary obsession with the object of your affection is familiar for many — and it has a name: limerence.
The Scaries: On How To Check Your Ugly
How do you ensure that you don’t misplace your love or alienate that love with ugly behaviors? What can you do to love fully?
The Scaries: On the Fear Of Falling In Love
Words by Kathleen Wong. Art by Sam Liacos. What should falling in love actually feel like? There is arguably no other idiom in the English language more ubiquitous than “falling in love.” We hear it in songs, television shows (hello, Bachelor Nation), books, movies, and of course, conversations in real life. The exact origin of…