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Support

How to Help Your Grieving Partner How partners show up — or don’t — after a loss can profoundly impact the relationship, either strengthening it or exposing the cracks. Ideally, a partner knows what to do and say, but many people struggle with exactly how to respond.   In
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Common Threads

Why We Obsess Over Patterns in Our Dates “Stop dating four-letter dudes,” my friend Heather (seven letters) told me. “You have a problem. You need to break this habit, the way some people don’t date Geminis.”   While I am always scanning new paramours for red flags, I had
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Relationship Cliché

Your Beloved Need Not Be Your Bestie Too Lately, I have come to notice a certain shared impulse by coupled-up friends, acquaintances and post-Bachelor influencers in the way they talk about their beloved. It shows up all year, but really crops up around Valentine’s Day. You have
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