A friend of mine—let’s call him David—runs a mid-sized accounting firm in Sacramento. Last year, he spent the better part of four months consumed by articles ...

The friends you made before thirty feel like they live inside you. The ones you make after forty feel like appointments. Psychologists say both experiences are real, but only one of them reveals what ...

Gen X is absorbing a caregiving crisis their parents never planned for, filling the gap between what aging parents have and what aging parents need with their own careers, marriages, savings, and ...

The longest-lasting couples describe comfort so deep it doesn't announce itself — love that feels, on many ordinary ...

We've been told that good couples talk about everything. But the couples who last often share a quieter skill: knowing which conversations would only generate heat without light.

Three decades of research reveal that positive affirmations backfire for people with low self-esteem, intensifying the very feelings they're meant to heal — and the wellness industry has no incentive ...

Millions of Americans between 50 and 65 are rationing medication while waiting for Medicare eligibility — and the shame, ...

Researchers have a name for why millions sacrifice sleep to scroll — revenge bedtime procrastination — and it reveals something far more uncomfortable than a screen addiction problem.

We worship communication as the golden ticket of modern relationships. But research shows your partner misreads you roughly two-thirds of the time — and the couples who last are the ones who stop ...

Generation X is absorbing financial obligations from aging parents and adult children simultaneously, while a policy ...

The saver-spender conflict in couples almost never originates in the present. Therapists say both partners are reenacting childhood survival strategies — and the very qualities that drew them together ...

I tried following the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for six weeks and discovered they function as a class document disguised as a ...