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Faith HillThe Atlantic |
Young people are tired of swiping. Now they want serendipity. Say you’re in a bar. You see someone across the room who looks appealing. But do they...
Romance in America has never been easy. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize...
Your repeated attraction to a certain “type” may be down more to psychological comfort than to a mysterious connection. Cool-but-not-too-cool...
As both child care and adolescence have changed, the sitter has started to disappear. Babysitting used to be both a job and a rite of passage. For...
Couples’ personalities can become more similar over time—but the causes are still enigmatic. Psychologists occasionally talk about the...
The ways that Americans used to learn child-rearing are falling apart. The new ones aren’t filling the gaps left behind. There are just some things...
There’s so much about growing up that the arrangement, which has grown more common in the U.S., can’t teach you. Recently, someone I’m close to...
Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one. Perhaps you’ve heard: Americans are having fewer children, on average, than...
Gauging romantic potential takes time. Who has that? You probably know the “spark.” It shows up in countless romantic comedies, and occasionally...
The most social social media these days is … texting. And it’s gotten overwhelming. Here’s just a sample of group chats that have been...
The healthiest relationships don’t involve a merging of selves but rather allow intimacy and independence to coexist. If you have a romantic...