Discussing some key topics before – or even after – they move in together can help couples successfully navigate this step.
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The ‘talking stage’ is a lot like traditional ‘courting’ – with some online complications. Still, it can be a great way to test the waters with a potential partner and establish healthy boundaries.
About a third of women and 9% of men who participate in the long-running Dunedin Study reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact before age 16. For many, this has a life-long impact.
The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from the virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.
Public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many people experienced social isolation. But the pandemic didn’t invent loneliness, and its impacts on our health are growing.
At the most basic level, the brain releases a cocktail of chemicals. But there’s more to it than that.
The convenience of dating apps can also make them difficult to navigate.
The five widely accepted lovely languages are words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts of service and receiving gifts.
Remote working policy needs to strike a balance between productivity and individual rights of employees.
The tools for reach and influence that the internet provides might be unprecedented. But people like Tate are simply pedalling the age-old sexist views that fuel gendered violence.
Most marriage and health studies have focused on married men and women. But more recent studies examine relationships in which partners have the same gender identity, the same biological sex and who are gender diverse.
A classics scholar reflects on Greek myths and what they can help us understand about recreating relationships – as a bridge from our past to present selves.
Hybrid and remote-heavy work setups have fundamentally changed how people interact at ‘the office.’ What do workers and managers want out of the workplace now?
There was once a time when you could simply put old photos and love letters out of sight and out of mind. Editing your ex out of your digital life is a lot trickier.
Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of a second-wave feminist, ranges across the contemporary sexual landscape – and looks back at the history of feminism – in a ‘zig zag pursuit of sexual liberation’.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his on-and-off girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and others involved in the company were reportedly in a polycule together.
Men could be doing more around the house. And it’s affecting relationships in ways no-one has explored, until now.
It’s often assumed that people who identify as asexual are also ‘aromantic’ – that they aren’t interested in forming romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so.
Women are often considered the barometer of a relationship’s success, but research shows that it takes both people to contribute to a relationship’s satisfaction and happiness.
This isn’t the first dating app to intersect tech, dating, intimacy and politics.
Top contributors
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland and Senior Lecturer, RMIT University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales
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Emeritus Professor in Social Policy, University of Bradford
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Teaching Associate, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, University of Utah
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Mental health researcher, University of Cambridge
