“I desperately want to have sex with men who aren’t my boyfriend,” is a text I sent my best friend four years ago. “I think I really need to be in an open relationship.” And yet, within two months of ...

How to Know When to Break Up: We often have many questions about breakups. Sometimes we make hasty decisions that we regret for the rest of our lives. There's something special about that heavy ...

Somewhere in the wreckage of a relationship ending, there is information. Most people are too busy surviving the grief to look for it. And that is entirely understandable, because a breakup is ...

There's no perfect way to end a relationship, but some strategies prove more effective than others. Taking your partner by surprise, for instance, seems particularly harsh and uncaring. At the ...

“I hear you saying that this isn't what you are looking for.” Jess* looked at the message that popped up on her screen. After two days of silence, she asked her situationship for a gut check, and he’d ...

After a breakup, most young adults are often encouraged to take time to heal without rushing into dating again. After a relationship ends, broken-hearted partners may hear advice like “rebounds are an ...

What do you do when someone did not end up being who you thought they were? I went through a sort of breakup recently where the person I was seeing completely switched up one me. It made me question ...

This revelation didn’t come as any huge surprise to either of us. I’d had my misgivings about the relationship—especially the monogamous part of it—from the beginning. I’d been had that term not been ...