Category: Relationships

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The Soapbox: On “Helicopter Parents” And “Free Range Kids”

I grew up in the ‘80s on a tree-lined neighborhood that skirted the edge of New Haven, Connecticut. Nobody really traveled down my short street unless they lived there or were visiting, and my family was friendly with all of our neighbors. With a backyard that was mostly brambling bushes and trees, I spent the […]

10 Life-Changing Things That Happen When You Date Your Opposite

We’ve talked about “perfect boyfriend/girlfriend checklists” before, because they’re something that we pretty much all have, whether we physically write them down or not. Even an open-minded person is probably holding onto some idea that they whipped together in childhood about the kind of person they imagined being with forever. I always thought I would meet a […]

The Electric Charge Of A Symbiotic Power Friendship

I’m reading this book called Joe Cinque’s Consolation, which tells the true story of a real life trial of two women –  Anu Singh, who injected her boyfriend Joe Cinque with heroin and watched him die, and Mandhavi Rao, Anu’s best friend who might have assisted her in the process. The story is complicated, of course, […]

Girl Talk: I Fought With A Priest About “Commitment” And Then Cried

Here is a list of people who really, really, really want to see me engaged: Me. (Obviously.) My boyfriend, who is saving money for an engagement ring. (Although you probably know more about that than I do.) My mother. (Who, every time she sees him, badgers offers to help him pick the aforementioned ring out.) A Roman Catholic priest whom […]

Wait, What? Housework Equality Can Lead To Higher Divorce Rate

Couples who divvy up washing dishes, cleaning the laundry, and other house chores are more likely to get divorced than couples where the woman does the homemaking by herself, according to a Norwegian study of thousands of couples called Equality in the Home. In the study, which looked at 2012-13 data, researchers found that the 25 […]