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About a decade ago, Brenna Holeman was on the perfect first date with a man she’d met on a dating app. It was a rainy night in a cozy London bar, and before the date even ended — with a kiss — they’d breathlessly made plans for their next rendezvous. “He even texted me that […]
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Romantic relationships can be a source of deep joy and satisfaction — and also a real pain to navigate. As reporters who cover relationships for Well, we’re fortunate to spend hours every week talking to researchers, couples counselors and sex therapists who are some of the leading experts on love and who have seemingly endless […]
Continue ReadingAs a reporter who covers sex and intimacy, I spend a lot of time listening to experts extol the virtues of open, honest communication. To have good sex — and to keep having good sex over time — couples must be willing to talk about it, they say. But some people would rather leave their […]
Continue ReadingSince her marriage of more than 20 years ended in divorce, Amy, a 62-year-old Texan, has had a couple of committed relationships and a handful of sexual partners. Amy is currently seeing a man she described as a “friend with benefits,” but it’s nothing she takes too seriously. What she does take seriously is talking […]
Continue ReadingI like talking to my husband about a lot of things, but money isn’t one of them. Most of our conversations about spending go something like this: We lament our credit card balances. We grumble about child care costs. Then we retreat until the next bill arrives or tax season shines a bright, unsparing light […]
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Joy Lorton, 80, has been married and divorced four times. “I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when everybody was supposed to get married and have kids, so I did that,” said Ms. Lorton, who lives in Olympia, Wash., and has three daughters, seven grandchildren and a gaggle of great-grandchildren. But each of her […]
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My partner won’t let me go out in a pair of scuffed or dull boots. He gets out his portable Executive Valet Shine Kit. “Put your foot up here,” he demands. He slides a chamois cloth back and forth across the toe, the upper, the vamp, the quarter, the collar, the counter. I am transported […]
Continue ReadingNew love can consume our thoughts, supercharge our emotions and, on occasion, cause us to act out of character. “People pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love and they die for love,” said Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. “It’s one of the most […]
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A decade ago, as the sex educator Emily Nagoski was researching and writing her first book, “Come as You Are” — a soon-to-be best seller exploring the science of women’s sexuality — she and her husband stopped having sex. Nagoski began appearing everywhere, reassuring women that their sexuality was not a problem that needed to […]
Continue ReadingValentine’s Day is just around the corner and, sure, plenty of people dismiss it as a commercialized scam. But for others, the holiday is a welcome occasion to pause and remind your partner what they mean to you (or, at the very least, to eat a little chocolate). In that spirit, The Times wants to […]
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If you are on the dating scene in 2024, you have likely accumulated a certain amount of clutter. Maybe it’s an outdated online profile that you can’t bring yourself to overhaul, or a match you keep messaging despite not seeing a future together. Perhaps you’re still haunted by someone who ghosted you. These forms of […]
Continue ReadingIt wasn’t only in our home that things got weird. I covered my tattoos in front of his parents. I certainly didn’t tell them I was writing a book about my years as an addict and sex worker; in fact, I told almost no one. I amassed a rich collection of cardigans. My life started […]
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