relationships

107 posts

1. Romantic comedy is committed to relatively ordinary people December 15, 2022
2. You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to June 26, 2018
3. When to Share January 22, 2018
4. Resentment might start with a wrong done to you January 3, 2017
5. Carolyn Hax: A quick trip from travel mode to grump mode - The Washington Post December 31, 2016
6. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition June 13, 2016
7. If you’re 30% through life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships December 29, 2015
8. How to talk to anyone: the experts' guide December 15, 2015
9. How Friendships Change When You Become an Adult November 24, 2015
10. Getting along isn’t luck, it’s a skill November 18, 2015
11. Friendship is not a pale imitation of sexual romance September 20, 2015
12. The best way to communicate your needs is to trust them July 28, 2015
13. Listen for follow-up questions June 10, 2015
14. Carolyn Hax: A friend with seemingly everything still has time for fine whine May 14, 2015
15. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High May 12, 2015
16. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life February 20, 2015
17. StrengthsFinder 2.0 February 8, 2015
18. Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You January 27, 2015
19. The Devotion Leap - NYTimes.com January 24, 2015
20. The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit September 1, 2014
21. Not having an opinion means not having an obligation August 19, 2014
22. The Cold Stoicism of Advice Columns for Men August 5, 2014
23. My friend Mario Joyner has a funny line August 4, 2014
24. Carolyn Hax: Weddings bring out the worst in an unmarried couple - The Washington Post April 22, 2014
25. 2013 Double Feature: Her / Don Jon / The Dissolve February 22, 2014
26. Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss January 20, 2014
27. Jerry Seinfeld on how to be funny without sex and swearing January 5, 2014
28. Be gentle especially when you’re right December 1, 2013
29. When you explain something based on what broad categories of people do October 16, 2013
30. Gifts and time for family are investments in them as people September 9, 2013
31. There has never been so much future in my life as at that time August 20, 2013
32. Heroism is often some seriously boring stuff July 22, 2013
33. There’s no need for you to “decide” on one feeling June 21, 2013
34. The full story is never as tidy as the one that starts with “Obviously” June 6, 2013
35. My drinking was so much about trying not to feel things May 27, 2013
36. Small Talk | The Point Magazine May 24, 2013
37. I’m an ambivert—more introverted than extroverted May 22, 2013
38. Life Lessons with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 2, 2013
39. State your needs, don’t test people on them April 24, 2013
40. How Code-Switching Explains The World : Code Switch : NPR April 8, 2013
41. Take the hard feelings away, and this is the right thing to do April 7, 2013
42. I married young. What are the rest of you waiting for? - Slate Magazine April 2, 2013
43. Before having children February 20, 2013
44. Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Chrono Trigger – The Bygone Bureau February 13, 2013
45. Relationships are complicated, but happiness in one isn’t January 22, 2013
46. Paris Review – CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface, George Saunders January 17, 2013
47. Finding the Words (or Not) to Say Goodbye - NYTimes.com December 29, 2012
48. Both male and female INTPs may end up feeling guilty December 19, 2012
49. One is the Loneliest Number - NYTimes.com December 14, 2012
50. Remains of the Day - Washingtonian December 5, 2012
51. The ears that are listening make more difference than the music September 27, 2012
52. Love Like Cosima - The Barnes & Noble Review September 27, 2012
53. When people bypass simple solutions, there’s usually an ulterior motive September 26, 2012
54. Competitive people are most annoying to other competitive people September 25, 2012
55. The Sad Secular Monks | First Things August 29, 2012
56. Mad Love: The Surrealism of the Supernatural Romantic Melodrama, Part One « The Third Meaning August 16, 2012
57. Abebe: Why Frank Ocean's Coming-Out Was Unique July 9, 2012
58. Your biggest career decision is who you marry | Penelope Trunk Blog April 18, 2012
59. Let the facts write your dreams March 12, 2012
60. Rarely do I have any shittiness that stays shitty February 19, 2012
61. Basing your friendships on what people have to offer February 13, 2012
62. What Facebook's IPO means for women | Penelope Trunk Blog February 8, 2012
63. That was the idiot hopefulness of humans, always to love what was unformed February 3, 2012
64. Uncouple your own grief from the hopes you pin on others January 6, 2012
65. They cannot admire you for intellect December 6, 2011
66. It is ridiculous not to escape from one’s own vices, which is possible, while… December 5, 2011
67. Does cheater deserve a second chance? - Carolyn Hax - The Washington Post November 21, 2011
68. KAREN: What difference does it make? November 2, 2011
69. By seven everyone is gone October 27, 2011
70. For a single person, thinking something through marks the end of the reasoning… October 20, 2011
71. Igor Stravinsky bowing down to kiss his wife, Vera de Bosset September 26, 2011
72. Remembering a Relationship, One Chat at a Time - GOOD September 19, 2011
73. On Tranquillity of Mind - Seneca September 14, 2011
74. A rural person expects to know every person in his world, and therefore thinks… August 29, 2011
75. Eero Saarinen’s list of Aline Bernstein’s good qualities, ca. 1954 July 13, 2011
76. This continuous modification of man by his own technology stimulates him… July 5, 2011
77. Envy works upon what is close at hand, and things that are far off we are more… June 24, 2011
78. Social occasions can work a certain magic May 31, 2011
79. Puberty was a bag of cement lashed to my ankle May 2, 2011
80. It takes no work to fall in love April 8, 2011
81. Should you pursue mastery? | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist March 1, 2011
82. Tests for Husbands and Wives February 17, 2011
83. Mira Kirshenbaum on Relationship Therapy | FiveBooks December 8, 2010
84. Wehr in the World: The importance of family and such December 2, 2010
85. Jodie Foster goes to college :: rogerebert.com November 20, 2010
86. Avoid evil, particularly if they’re attractive members of the opposite sex November 19, 2010
87. Hang around people who are better than you all the time November 17, 2010
88. A Death on Facebook - Magazine - The Atlantic August 26, 2010
89. The Wrong Stuff : Those Three Little Words ("Honey, You're Right"): Harville Hendrix on Being Wrong August 10, 2010
90. This is the Question, Charles Darwin writes at the top of the page July 31, 2010
91. Stendhal’s depiction of “crystallization” in the process of falling in love July 10, 2010
92. Glances are the big guns of the virtuous coquette; everything can be conveyed… July 10, 2010
93. Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist: Stendhal Among the Seducers - The Point Magazine July 10, 2010
94. The Wrong Stuff : Hoodoos, Hedge Funds, and Alibis: Victor Niederhoffer on Being Wrong July 5, 2010
95. Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating « OkTrends April 19, 2010
96. Interracial divorce, the matrix of sex & race: Gene Expression March 9, 2010
97. The Case For An Older Woman « OkTrends February 16, 2010
98. Some wisdom before school starts August 27, 2009
99. Picking Up Girls Made Easy! June 4, 2009
100. Yeah, you know, I stopped for a while January 26, 2009
101. Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me (review: 2/5) June 17, 2008
102. The Thurber & White send-up on the knee phenomenon March 30, 2008
103. Women can say stuff like, I loved him, I really, really loved him February 22, 2008
104. An economic perspective on long-distance relationships February 11, 2008
105. Why Mars & Venus Collide (review: 3/5) February 11, 2008
106. Advice to keep in mind while ring-shopping November 15, 2007
107. He's Just Not That Into You (review: 4/5) October 21, 2007