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Belle Burden’s Fans Don’t Care If She Lied
A New York socialite wrote a memoir about the collapse of her marriage, but seems to have exaggerated her financial woes. Her fans support her anyway.
Kat Rosenfield
How Ben Sasse Raised Me
My parents are fallible goofballs like anyone else. But there is something a bit different about the conversations at my dinner table—and something…
Alex Sasse
Tough Love: Am I Too Young to Have a Baby?
A 24-year-old wife who’s still in med school is itching to start a family. ‘Am I crazy for not wanting to wait?’ she asks. Our advice columnist weighs…
Abigail Shrier
Guys, Try Church
‘Am I a good Catholic? Probably not,’ writes Will Rahn. Yet here he is, making the case for going to church.
Will Rahn
Tough Love: Am I Wrong to Not Want Kids?
An almost-30-year-old reader writes: ‘Lately I have been wondering if I am making a mistake by deciding not to have kids.’ Our advice columnist weighs…
Abigail Shrier
Tough Love: I Want Kids. My Boyfriend Says He’s Not Ready.
‘He offered to pay for me to freeze my eggs, which we are doing this month,’ writes a female reader. But should she search for a man who’s on her…
Abigail Shrier
Say It with Me Now: Open Marriages Never Work
All Lindy West proves in her new memoir, ‘Adult Braces,’ is that she loves being treated like a child by the man she was supposed to grow old with—and…
Kat Rosenfield
The Generation Raised to Doubt Love
Long before our first crushes, women my age were taught that love doesn’t last and commitment is a trap.
Freya India
Arthur Brooks: So You Got Dumped. What Next?
If you’re in intense pain after a breakup, you are normal. But in the meantime, a few science-backed methods can help lower your suffering.
Arthur Brooks
The Women Who Lost Their AI Boyfriends
When OpenAI retired its GPT-4o model last week, thousands of women lost their chatbot partners. It was ‘like having lost my husband,’ one said to The…
Sascha Seinfeld
The Science of Hooking Up and Settling Down
UC Davis professor Paul Eastwick explains what evolutionary psychologists, the media, Jordan Peterson, and incels all get wrong about dating and…
River Page
My Valentine’s Day in Prison
Two years ago, Valentine’s Day arrived six weeks after I reported to a federal prison on public corruption charges. But I was determined to try to make…
P.G. Sittenfeld
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