"Why doesn't she just leave?" "Why does he keep going back?" People who have never been in an abusive or deeply harmful relationship often ask these questions, and the people living inside one often ask them of themselves.
Read the articleAlmost everyone knows someone they'd call "a bit of a narcissist." But being in a close relationship with someone whose self-focus goes deeper than vanity is a different experience.
Think back over the last week. How much of it did you actually choose?
It can start anywhere — in a grocery line, on a commute, in the middle of the night from a sound sleep.
Most friendships aren't perfectly balanced at every single moment — one friend goes through a hard year and…
Fear of failure — sometimes called atychiphobia in its more intense, phobia-level form — is one of the…
Spend an evening alone by choice, and you might feel restored.
Each week we pick one question about the mind, mood or relationships and answer it in plain language — with ideas you can actually try.
