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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: Should I Contact My Birth Mom?
I feel an urge to get in touch, but I’m worried my adoptive parents will be hurt.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Fiancé Is a Slacker Around the House
Should I be worried about how much responsibility he’ll take on as a dad?
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: Will I Ever Get Over My Wife's Death?
We were married for 47 years, and I can’t picture life without her.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Son Has an Impractical, Ridiculous Career Plan
He wants to be a stand-up comedian. I don’t want him living in my basement at age 35.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Google-Stalked My Therapist
And now I can’t unknow what I learned.
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Why There's No Such Thing as 'Having It All'—and There Never Will Be
When smart women lament the challenges of having everything at once all of the time, they sound awfully childish
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Amy Chua
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.
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Marry Him!
The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough
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Classen / ullstein bild via Getty How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment
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The XY Files
Forgoing a trip down the aisle, our correspondent heads straight to the sperm bank. But does she want the Truffaut aficionado or the mentor to underprivileged kids?
