Relationships

Millennials may be proving that coming to marriage later, with less rigid roles, is enabling the sort of marriages that Boomers idealized—and too often failed to create.

In Duped, Abby Ellin explores what people need from each other, and the lies and suspensions of disbelief that sometimes help them get it.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Lots of sources have cast the Muppets as queer, for a very long time.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Being the unwanted object of affection can cause great personal discomfort, and even impact careers.

Both punk bands and student groups produce more innovative work if they contain a mix of married and single people.

Extramarital sex has increased greatly for Americans in their 50s and 60s.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Broken Relationships gathers its emotional collection from the public—and, in the process, invites civilians of all classes and backgrounds to heal.

A look into America's changing views about love and family.

A new book charts the rise of unattached women through history—and makes the case for how they can change public policy.

Re-read this next time you're still behind your desk at 8 p.m.

A new study examines the lasting impacts of social isolation on key health indicators including blood pressure and inflammation.

High-achieving women are told to be proud of what they’ve accomplished. But professional triumphs don’t fill emotional holes.

Researchers suggest such experiences are linked to underlying emotional issues.

Friendship is not a pale imitation of sexual romance. It is a romance unto itself.

Researchers find that people who work to avoid conflicts are just as happy single—in fact, they're happier than other singles.

New research finds a link between fitting in with your peers as a teen and better health in your 20s.

Economic forces, rather than technological ones, are changing the way young people pursue relationships.

And it's called the porcupine problem.

The adults so fond of dismissing difficult teens might miss the irony that this is a distrusting and non-collaborative approach to their development.

Books and movies can provide our own private oasis, but also a way to find communion with others. And there’s something special in discovering a fictional universe in which outsiders come together.

Even indoor pets help us get to know other people, according to new research in four cities across the U.S. and Australia.

Everyone has one, but no two are quite the same.