Effective relationships involve being authentic and expressing your genuine thoughts and feelings rather than trying to present a certain image of yourself or focusing on pleasing the other person. It ...

Have you ever experienced a relationship with someone who leaves you feeling like you’ve been used? Whether it's friendship, family, or marriage, there are those relationships that seem based on what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. New research reveals how relationship satisfaction is closely ...

For many, romantic partnerships are at the heart of our well-being in life. Yet these same relationships can be fraught or hard to maintain. Spouses become bored with each other, grow in different ...

You might have heard the term "relationship escalator" before — often used to describe the traditional progression of a romance from first date to monogamous relationship to moving in together to ...

Relationship gaps are becoming one of the loudest dating debates online because people are no longer asking only whether two people love each other, but whether their age, money, values, politics, ...

Parasocial relationships are non-reciprocal connections that can have both positive and negative effects. They happen due to our natural need for connection and can affect a person’s emotions, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly ...

As Americans become more polarized, even family dinners can feel fraught, surfacing differences that could spark out-and-out conflict. Tense conversations often end with a familiar refrain: “Let’s ...

When I first started college three years ago, I was introduced to a new type of dating: the so-called “nonchalant” relationship. Against my better judgment, I soon found myself entering these ...