Health
Writing on how couples care for their bodies and minds together - without turning it into a project or a guilt trip.
Sleeping apart is often read as a verdict on a marriage. For many separate bedrooms couples it is a practical choice, and the work is keeping the closeness.
A practical guide to supporting your partner during pregnancy: what to take over, how to listen on hard days, and what to do when your help isn't landing.
Why sex decreases after marriage has a documented shape. A look at what security quietly replaces desire with, and when that explanation isn't the real one.
Helping a partner who is trying to stop drinking means learning the difference between support and control. A guide to what actually helps, day by day.
A look at five low-key ways to spend quiet time together as a couple, drawn from research on comfortable silence and what actually restores closeness.
A look at what to do when a partner doesn't take care of their health, why pushing tends to backfire, and what worked better in the research.
A look at why reconnecting after work in the first few minutes sets the tone for the evening, and why that short window matters more than a weekend date night.
Supporting a grieving partner rarely means finding the right words. What helps is staying close, and reaching out again, long after the first days have passed.
A practical guide to supporting a partner with insomnia: what helps at 2 a.m., what to save for daylight, and why some good intentions backfire.
A practical guide to supporting a partner through menopause: what to ask, what to take off her plate, and why this runs longer than a bad week.
Supporting a partner with ADHD often means quietly becoming the household's manager. What changes when reminders become shared systems, not one person's job.
Different sex drives in a relationship show up in most long marriages, research suggests, and treating the gap as ordinary changes what actually helps.