Every year since 2010, the Kinsey Institute (named for Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the bisexual sexologist who also lent his name to the Kinsey Scale) has the Singles in America (SIA) Study. The independent ...

Social media has transformed the way people communicate, connect, and share their lives. While it offers many benefits, such ...

A relationship should complement your life, not consume it. Learn how to recognize unhealthy patterns of enmeshment and how to create space without losing connection. There are bonds in our life that ...

With cheating in a relationship, whether physical or emotional, it's typically clear when things have gone too far — but what about your partner seemingly turning up the charm for a friend or ...

The holiday season is meant to be a time of connection and generosity—a time when families and friends gather, traditions flourish, and memories are created. Moments of belonging and love, from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. As the year comes to a close, many of us reflect on our personal goals, career ...

Looking back, the signs were there. “For one, he was kind of rude to my friends,” Jess says. “And he would totally shut down whenever he got upset.” Still, it wasn’t until after they broke up that ...

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 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As Americans become more polarized, even family dinners can feel fraught, ...

You don’t have to know every detail of your friend’s relationship to sense that something’s…off. Maybe your bestie shrugs off her partner’s frequent texts like they’re no biggie (“He just worries when ...

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 ...

Why do people want romantic relationships, if they do at all? The world today operates with a strong bias toward people being in, not out, of relationships (think "table for two?"). A component of ...