It's a stark reminder that, in an ideal world, your partner fits in seamlessly with your family. But that's just not always the case.
Category: Dating
7 Creative Ways to Celebrate Your Partner’s First Father’s Day
Those early months of parenthood are totally unique. It may even take you a while to adjust to the idea of yourselves as full-blown parents, in charge of raising and shaping your little bundle of joy.
Is Your Phone Ruining Your Relationship?
Phones are designed to grab our attention and keep us hooked—and it works—but our lives and our relationships can be really affected by phone use. For many of us, it’s even the source of conflict with our partners.
7 Ways To Keep Your Relationship Strong During Wedding Planning
It’s a hard truth that many of us are not our best selves during wedding planning. No matter how much we thought it we would be different, how much we planned on staying cool, collected, and calm, and no matter …
Creative and Stress-Free Ways to Bond With Your Mother-in-Law
But when you’re in a relationship, this can be complicated, because there are two families to contend with. Each will have its own quirks, difficulties, traditions, and dynamics. But perhaps one of the most tricky relationships to navigate is between …
How to Tell Your Partner You Need More Help With Emotional Labor
For decades, women have been doing the lion’s share of emotional and mental labor in heterosexual relationships. Women already do 2.8 times more unpaid labor than men, according to the United Nations, including chores, household management, childcare, and daily organization.
5 Things to Keep in Mind if You Work With Your Spouse
Before dating apps, a lot of people met through more old-fashioned methods: through friends and often through work. In fact, despite the ubiquity of dating apps, meeting people at work is still a very popular way of finding a spouse.
People Who Have Sex Regularly Earn More Money, Says New Study, So Now You Know What To Do If You Want That Promotion
Having regular sex isn't just amazing for your well-being and relationship— it can do wonders for your pay check.
A Psychologist Is Calling IKEA A “Relationship Nightmare”, But Maybe This Ultimate Test Is Just What Couples Need
Fights, breakdowns, stony silences — its reputation for destroying relationship has reached almost mythical proportions.
Should I Get A Prenup? Why You Should Have The Awkward Conversation With Your Partner Before You Get Married
I get it, it's not fun to talk about. In the middle of all of the "yes, I want to spend my life with you, you, you and only you" working you up into a love-stunned frenzy, talking about a …