Staying close helps joy overtake fear. Source: Juan Moyano / Shutterstock Stephanie Pfeil’s young marriage had the most dramatic high and low a couple could face: A new baby and a grim 8 percent ...

Resentment is rampant in our polarized world. It takes effort to keep it out of our relationships, where it is likely to ...

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Philophobia, the fear of falling in love, is a complex and intriguing ...

A fear of intimacy can affect a person’s ability to form or maintain relationships and is often identified by an overwhelming feeling of anxiety when a relationship begins moving past the beginning ...

Research shows that your past can deeply influence how you approach commitment in the present. Here’s why marriage is an intimidating prospect for some, more so than others. Marriage is easily one of ...

Ever since one of my Golden Bear Orientation, or GBO, leaders, a senior at the time, began dating one of the members of my group shortly after the end of orientation, I’ve found myself wondering, ...

Most couples want good health to be part of their future together, but many do not realize how certain intimate behaviors can ...