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Wives beating their husbands with frypans, rolling pins and brooms-these images have given us a good laugh. A friend pointed out if such images were…
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No best career, no best body — but more self-acceptance than ever. A personal essay on what rocking your 40s actually feels like.
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Loneliness now rivals smoking and obesity as a mortality risk. The biology — from gene expression to inflammation — and what actually helps.
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Suchitra Sharma on the Rashomon effect — why two people can witness the same event and remember it completely differently.
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Suchitra Sharma on why lying and loving coexist — from white lies to protect a partner to Clancy Martin's 'Good Lovers Lie' argument.
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Psychologist Arthur Aron's 36 questions — escalating self-disclosure designed to build closeness — went viral after Mandy Len Catron tried them in the NYT.
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A 2015 survey of UK divorce lawyers found Facebook cited in over a third of cases — as evidence of infidelity, hidden finances, and rekindled old flames.
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Therapist Dr. Kelly Flanagan's 2014 essay: marital communication is just reacting — the real troublemakers are nine overlooked patterns: ego, shame, loneliness.
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Most marriages don't fail in a single dramatic moment. They fail slowly — taken for granted, compared, cheated, or fought over money. What actually breaks them.
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A man's demand for an open relationship backfired: his girlfriend found plenty of dates while he found none. The 2014 Reddit story that made TI readers
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From an Indian Army study on leave and affairs to Bangalore's IT crowd: an op-ed asking whether monogamy is believed but not practiced.
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Forgetting names isn't a memory defect, says Kansas State psychologist Richard Harris — it's an interest defect. Care more about people and the names stick.
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Researcher Terri Orbuch found that when husbands felt close to their wives' parents, couples reported happier marriages. The in-law effect is real.
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She sees clutter; he sees treasures. How one couple's war over a messy home office illustrates the surprisingly deep psychology behind domestic conflict.
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Marrying into Indian family life means marrying the family, the festivals, the food debates — and learning that 'compromise' has a much larger cast than two.
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The 'nagging' label frames repetition as a character flaw instead of what it usually is: the response to commitments that were never kept.
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Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.
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Before settling down, most women collect a small education in men: the best friend, the bad boy, the ex, the fling, and finally the keeper.
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In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.
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Why group dates caught on in India: safety, lower pressure, and the friend-group as chaperone. Inside the 2011 trend and what became of it.
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Marital drift — the slow divergence of two people sharing a house — is the least dramatic and most common reason long marriages end. Why it happens.
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With Facebook nearing 500 million users, one feed now reaches your boss, your clients, and your grandmother. What not to post to all of them at once.
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The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.
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