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Why Married People Are Smug and Singles So Carefree
TIME: If you’re single, you can’t seem to get away from the couple who won’t stop cooing and talking about how great it is to be in a relationship and how relieved they are to
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Rationalizing Madly on Valentine’s Day
The Wall Street Journal: Call it the Valentine’s Day bias—the belief that, whether you’re attached or single, your own status is a kind of universal ideal. The funny thing is that people often do this
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Science Shows Dating Websites Aren’t Better At Finding You Love
TechCrunch: I was really hoping this article would have ended differently. But after spending countless hours scanning tiny pixelated squares of people who were supposed to represent my mathematically determined soul mate, I found that
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Small Acts, Big Love
The Wall Street Journal: Chris Kline doesn’t like to tell his wife of 17 years, Tara, that he loves her. He prefers to show her—by loading her favorite songs on her phone and warming up
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Love is in the mind, not in the heart
The Washington Post: Nearly 400 years after William Shakespeare asked, “What is love?,” brain imaging studies are allowing scientists to give at least a partial answer. As our calendars get closer to Feb. 14, a
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7-minute essay slows the loathe in marriages
Today: Could a little homework help save your marriage? Researchers in Chicago think so. They found that couples who spent just seven minutes every few months writing short essays about their recent fights reported being
