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How To Navigate Traveling With a Romantic Partner For The First Time
From destinations and activities to talking finances, here’s what to consider when planning your first romantic getaway with someone.
Divorced, Parenting, and Dating: Does Same Seek Same or No?
For divorced parents, dating comes with an entirely different set of priorities.
Look to These Parts of Your Birth Chart To Predict Love
These five elements of your birth chart can provide insight into your motivations and tendencies relative to love.
5 People On What They Learned About Love From Their Friend With Benefits
It’s possible to learn about yourself and love through different types of intimacy with someone you don’t necessarily want to date.
5 Women On How Their Friendship & Romantic Breakups Differed
Breaking up with a partner is hard no matter the circumstances, but the end of a friendship is a different type of hurt.
A Guide To Emojis For Sexting
As more are introduced, a few creatively used emojis can replace words or feelings in all of your conversations — even sexting.
Do You Love Who They Are or What They Do for You? An Exploration of Why It Matters
Expert guidance on figuring out how you love others and how to assess your connections.
The Scaries: On Saying ‘I Love You’ First
We spoke to four people about the time they said ‘I love you’ first and how they overcame the fear to do so.
On Loving Ourselves (And Everyone Else)
Two queer singles and one couple share their experience with polyamorous love in a post-pandemic landscape.
Three Therapists Weigh In on Mental Health, Intimacy & the Layers in Between
Intimacy is “an exercise in being vulnerable and knowing that I’m going to be okay on the other side of it regardless.”
How Celibacy Deepened My Sense of Intimacy
In our world of hook up culture and dating apps, remaining celibate can be seen as “missing out.” But for this writer, it strengthened her relationship with her partner—and with herself.
Dating Trends We Should Keep Long After The Pandemic
The dating trends that a clinical psychotherapist, a dating app creator and daters have been using throughout the pandemic, and should continue to do.
A Touchy Subject: Physical Affection Post-COVID-19
Touch and physical sensation have been filtered from dating. How will this affect us moving forward post pandemic?