While the events that lead to love, marriage, affairs and divorce can often feel arbitrary, for psychologists there is a definitive science behind why some relationships work and some just don’t. In ...

Reviewed by Ivy Kwong, LMFT Key Takeaways Attachment styles can influence how often, how fast, and how emotionally we text ...

Marie and her husband started seeing a couples therapist when the early years of parenthood put a strain on their marriage. Their two kids were 3 years and 4 months old, respectively, when COVID ...

Do you find yourself hyperfixating on whether your partner is upset with you? Do you feel as though you're constantly nagging at your significant other in search of affection? Or maybe you're the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Some couples can’t get enough — or too much — of each other.

You know when you’re dating someone new, and things are going well? You’re texting back and forth, sharing little moments from your day, and then suddenly… silence. You know it’s because they’re busy, ...

As human beings, we are always looking for that Goldilocks “just right” sensation: Not too cold, not too warm. Neither hungry nor overly full. Not bored, but not stressed out either. The same ...

It’s a fear of being judged or negatively evaluated. In the future, you might avoid situations like these or manage to get ...

If you follow pop psychology, you’ll know these terms as part of attachment theory. It’s a simple, if reductive idea, on how people “attach” to partners — do they do it anxiously fearing abandonment, ...