My boss said something to me once that I couldn’t stop thinking about. It wasn’t a big deal—just a passing comment after a ...

My aunt was the most competent person I knew growing up. She ran her own business before most of her friends had settled into careers. She owned her home at twenty-nine. She cooked for everyone at ...

I grew up in a house where love was mostly implied. Nobody was unkind. Nobody was cruel. But the particular warmth that some ...

While conventional affection may mean hugging or cuddling, there are certain ways introverts show love by "penguin pebbling" instead of getting exhausted by normal affection.

Have you ever said “I love you” out of habit, when you weren’t fully feeling it? Or told your partner you had an amazing time in bed when the experience was average? This is called “deceptive ...

The researchers had 36 people keep a weeklong diary, recording every time that they withheld affection from their romantic partners (which included everything from friends with benefits to fiancés).

The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” ...