How Homeownership Changes You
It’s not just a financial commitment. It can alter people’s relationships to a community, a place, and even time.
The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late
The existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in a relationship is often dependent on moments you might write off as petty disagreements.
The Friendship Researchers Who Are Also Friends
“In our writing, it got to the point where we could no longer remember who wrote which sentences, or who came up with this or that idea.”
A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds
Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift.
The Emotion Missing From the Workplace
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
The End of Mom Guilt
Why a mother’s ambition is good for her family
Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
We need physical spaces for serendipitous, productivity-free conversation.
How Can Individual People Most Help Ukraine?
Anything helps—we shouldn’t overthink it. But we should still, well, think it.
What the Second-Happiest People Get Right
If you make happiness your primary goal, you might miss out on the challenges that give life meaning.
When You No Longer Recognize Your Home Country
People who left homelands that have since undergone severe political changes are grieving the demise of a place as they knew it.
You Don’t Need to Post About Every Tragedy
We have learned to perform our grief in the public arena. But what if we have nothing constructive to say?
Dear Therapist: Why Can’t My Wife Pretend to Like My Family?
I feel like I am stuck in a fight I don’t want to have.
A Creative Solution to ‘the Friendship Desert of Modern Adulthood’
“I knew many old couples who had happy and loving arranged marriages. I thought, If it worked for them, why couldn’t it work for friendships?”
Why I’m Staying in Kyiv
If Putin uproots us all, he will win.
Choose Enjoyment Over Pleasure
Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human.
What Working Mothers Heard in Judge Jackson’s Words
Even the eminently accomplished Ketanji Brown Jackson knows the struggle of trying to balance a career and parenthood.
Changing Clocks Is Annoying. The Alternatives Are Too.
The Senate is proposing to make daylight saving time permanent. Is that the best option?
The Fragility of Those Two Pink Lines
After my miscarriage, I spent my next pregnancy steeling myself for another loss.
Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here’s how to keep them from affecting your happiness.
The Most Haunting Truth of Parenthood
What my father learned working in a nuclear bomb shelter is what every parent knows deep down: We can’t protect the ones we love forever.