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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.

Loneliness now rivals smoking and obesity as a mortality risk. The biology — from gene expression to inflammation — and what actually helps.

Suchitra Sharma on the Rashomon effect — why two people can witness the same event and remember it completely differently.

Suchitra Sharma on why lying and loving coexist — from white lies to protect a partner to Clancy Martin's 'Good Lovers Lie' argument.

Psychologist Arthur Aron's 36 questions — escalating self-disclosure designed to build closeness — went viral after Mandy Len Catron tried them in the NYT.

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.

Therapist Dr. Kelly Flanagan's 2014 essay: marital communication is just reacting — the real troublemakers are nine overlooked patterns: ego, shame, loneliness.

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.

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

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.

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.

Researcher Terri Orbuch found that when husbands felt close to their wives' parents, couples reported happier marriages. The in-law effect is real.

She sees clutter; he sees treasures. How one couple's war over a messy home office illustrates the surprisingly deep psychology behind domestic conflict.

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.

The 'nagging' label frames repetition as a character flaw instead of what it usually is: the response to commitments that were never kept.

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

Gottman's 'Four Horsemen' — contempt, criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling — predict divorce. Why marriages fail, and what actually prevents it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fleeing husband who leaves a long marriage triggers more than grief — a painful revision of the whole story the abandoned partner told herself.