On average, adults reported experiencing passionate love about twice in their lifetime (2.05 experiences). Notably, 14% had never experienced passionate love, while 28% experienced...
Improvements in relationship confidence had the biggest impact on individual outcomes, including improved mental health, better sleep, and reduced substance use.
Men in particular integrate their partners’ perspectives into how they evaluate their own professional success. For wives and girlfriends, this trend was significantly less...
Partners are often key facilitators of recovery, for example, by cooking heart-healthy meals, encouraging regular physical activity, and ensuring medications are taken correctly.
Domestic abusers use a mix of intense affection and emotional cruelty, combined with tales of their own childhood trauma, to generate a deep psychological...
Those with “dark triad” personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism (i.e. cunning, manipulative) are more likely to use touch to manipulate their partner in...