There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what ...

Breakups are hard. You invest so much time and energy into another person, only to cut them out of your life completely. If ...

The age-old question of whether dating a friend’s ex crosses an unspoken line continues to spark heated debates in today’s dating landscape. As relationship boundaries evolve with modern times, this ...

You just broke up with an important person in your life—would you consider being friends with them or would you rather turn into complete strangers? Karylle recently made the rounds on social media ...

Let’s be honest, breaking up is never easy, especially when you’ve poured so much time and energy into a relationship with someone who was once a huge part of your life. However, just because a ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, Is it always a bad idea to hook up with an ex? I had a pretty serious ...

Dear Eric: My ex and I are on good terms. I wouldn’t say we’re friends just yet. It’s kinda new. We separated two years ago, and we got divorced about eight months ago. We keep in contact a little but ...

Dear Abby: My friend has ended our friendship because my husband and I refused to end our friendship with her soon-to-be ex-husband. All our friends (including the husbands of her girlfriends) are ...

Shows like Friends and How I Met Your Mother make the breakup-to-bestie trope seem doable (exciting, even). But offscreen, can you be friends with your ex? Most of us know how this story tends to play ...

Dear Eric: One of my best friends is a woman I introduced to my boyfriend’s brother. They married last October after knowing each other for about six months. My friend often confides in me about ...

I have a client in her 40s who has just finalized her divorce from her husband. They had met at the soccer field where they both played adult league recreational soccer, and their friendship grew into ...

I’m in my mid-20s and started dating a guy I met in college about five months ago. He’s great, we get along well, we have shared interests, we are both transplants from the same area in a different, ...