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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: Can I Cut My Mom Off From My Children If She Won’t Seek Therapy?
She hasn’t been a great parent to me, and I don’t want her repeating those patterns with my future kids.
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Jan Buchczik How We Learned to Be Lonely
In the early days of the pandemic, many of us got used to solitude. It’s a habit we need to break.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty; The Atlantic What Squirrels Taught Me About Life After Divorce
Only 25 percent of gray squirrels survive their first year. Success rates for second marriages are almost equally dire.
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Debora Szpilman The Surprisingly Profound Power of Thank-You Notes
Looking back on the year, I make a mental list of everyone who supported me—and remember that no achievement is the result of my efforts alone.
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Maridelis Morales Rosado / The New York Times … The Married-Mom Advantage
Motherhood during the pandemic wasn’t so miserable after all. But some moms did better than others.
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Rachel Israela / Connected Archives ‘Best Friends’ Are a Surprisingly Recent Phenomenon
We weren’t always so taken with dynamic duos. But in recent decades, we’ve come to expect that people should have one closest companion.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: How Do I Hold Boundaries With My Sister at Christmas?
I don’t want a relationship with her, but my parents want us to make up.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Prelinger Archives / … What Second-Chance Couples Know About Love
Getting back together with an ex is risky—but it might pay off.
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Alessandra Sanguinetti / Magnum Should Friends Offer Honesty or Unconditional Support?
A “culture of passivity” makes many people reluctant to question their friends’ decisions.
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Lanna Apisukh for The Atlantic The Woman Who Made Online Dating Into a ‘Science’
Almost 20 years ago, Helen Fisher helped revolutionize dating. She has no regrets.
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Jan Buchczik Breakups Always Hurt, but You Can Shorten the Suffering
Three steps to get over your ex
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Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Take Yourself on a Date
It’s not just the quantity of your alone time that matters. It’s the quality.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The ‘Mother of the Year’ Who Starved for 53 Months
In 2014, an octopus made headlines for starving herself while protecting her eggs. Why does she remind me of my mom?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic / Getty Gift-Giving Is About the Buyer, Not the Receiver
Many of us want to feel like we’re benevolent, yet we pay substantial attention to how the process of giving will make us feel about ourselves.
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Nathan Howard / Getty America Is Pursuing Happiness in All the Wrong Places
The U.S. is undergoing a crisis of our personal and shared sense of meaning as polarization rises and institutions erode. The solution is as simple as it is difficult: Love one another.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty; The Atlantic The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should
Many people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: My Brother-in-Law Is a Thanksgiving Freeloader
Do I have to invite him this year?
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Jan Buchczik Marriage Is a Team Sport
Approach disagreements with your partner not as a “me,” but as a “we.”
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Ben Hickey The Case for a Long Divorce
Some people going through breakups are reconsidering the best way to end a relationship, including how to honor their time together.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: I Don’t Think I Can Accept My Boyfriend’s Past
Seeing photos with his ex-wife and kids pushed me over the edge.
