Strengthen Your Relationships in 2025
These tips can help you fortify your friendships and romantic partnerships in the year ahead.
Why Are We Using Astrology To Find The Right Partner?
Then, of course, there’s the mass disillusionment people are dealing with, fuelled by the current dating culture and social media. “Astrology provides a narrative that frames relationship challenges as cosmic rather than personal, which can be comforting for those feeling disillusioned,” says Blumberg. Again, Johnson agrees. “It can be a way for people to validate […]
Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Should Involve Your Interpersonal Relationships
Experts share how shifting from self-focused goals to thinking about others can have a positive impact on the year ahead.
How to stay friends through life changes
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. One of the earliest declarations of love we’re exposed to is the classic childhood best friend pact. Though we aren’t old enough to sign legally binding documents, a pinky […]
How to avoid losing friends and family over politics
When Kay’s two best friends — a married couple she met at work — told her they weren’t voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, she believed them. After all, Kay and her friends shared similar values; they all supported issues like reproductive rights and protections for LGBTQ people. But while she was […]
Young men are falling behind. What should we do about it?
What’s going on with men? There’s a growing body of evidence that men are falling behind. You can see it in education, in the labor market, and in the data on drug overdoses and deaths by suicide. The fact is, we have an alarming number of lonely, alienated, and disaffected young men in this country. […]
The political divide has left some personal relationships on shaky ground
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Eric Liu, co-founder of Citizen University, about how to coexist in community with people who vote differently.
Ditch Your Screens to End the Global Friendship Recession
In a cozy café in Amsterdam, with plush sofas and warm lighting, a group of people sit around talking, laughing, and playing board games. But something noticeable is missing. There is not a single phone in sight. It’s one of a regular series of community events held by the burgeoning Offline Club, where members pay […]
My Best Friend & I Took A Trip For Our 20th Anniversary
Over dinner, Ruth and I discussed how we’d managed it for so long and agreed that when one of us suggests doing something, we make it happen. Most of us are guilty of saying at least once to a friend that “we must meet up,” knowing full well we never will, but that is rarely […]
Some LinkedIn users are being put off the platform by flirtatious DMs
Chinese spies used Linkedin to get information on German officials, according to Germany’s intelligence agency bfV. studioEAST | Getty Images Some LinkedIn users have reported receiving unsolicited flirtatious messages via the platform, with expert Bernie Hogan at the Oxford Internet Institute saying the employment-focused social website is increasingly being used for dating purposes. Blair Huddy, […]