Eugenio Marongiu/Connect Images/Getty Images No one wants to fight with their partner, but alas, even the best relationships involve conflict from time to time. It’s how you repair afterward that really counts. If your arguments always escalate or never lead to change, it’s even more frustrating to go through the fight and then just…keep living...
ZeynepKaya/E+/Getty Images Do you know someone who has had an emotional affair, or whose partner had one during their relationship? Maybe you’ve done it yourself — and you wouldn’t be alone in that, by the way — or experienced that pit in your stomach finding your partner’s texts with someone else. Emotional affairs are a...
Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images The conversation started when one of my co-workers popped into our team Slack chat to vent about her husband. Before long, we were all weighing in with our own war stories of weaponized incompetence and how, sometimes, the simmering resentment toward our partners just sort of spills over. A few days later,...
skynesher/E+/Getty Images When I was growing up, family dinners were extremely important. Every night, my dad got home from work by seven and my mom had a home-cooked meal ready to go. That’s not to say there weren’t nights when, say, a play rehearsal kept me away, or my brothers skipped because they were at...