Money Fights Get All the Blame for Early Divorce, but New Research Says In-Law Conflict Is Actually the Stronger Warning Sign in the First 5 Years
Money is the divorce predictor everyone’s heard of. A widely cited study of more than 4,500…
‘Weaponized Incompetence’ Has a Name Now, and New Survey Data Shows Just How Many Marriages Are Quietly Shaped by One Partner Playing Dumb
Women are at least 20 percentage points more likely than men to be the one handling…
‘Breadcrumbing’ Just Became Singles’ No. 1 Dating Complaint of 2026, and New Survey Data Shows It’s Even More Common Than Ghosting
Breadcrumbing hit 14.1% of daters surveyed in a peer-reviewed study — nearly three times the 4.8%…
New Data Finally Puts a Number on the ‘Talking Stage’ — Here’s Exactly How Long It Lasts Before Couples Actually Call It a Relationship
Fifty-six percent of singles have deleted a dating app entirely because of how badly their “talking…
Nobody Just Posts Their New Relationship Anymore, New Survey Data Shows — Here’s the Actual Multi-Step Process Most Daters Follow Before Going Instagram-Official
A relationship going public on Instagram used to mean one thing: a photo, tagged, done. Communication…
Interracial Marriages Have Nearly Quadrupled Since 1980, and Pew’s Newest Data Shows Exactly Which Groups Are Driving the Shift
In 1980, just 6.7 percent of new marriages in the United States were between spouses of…
Opposites Really Do Attract, New Research on Introverts and Extroverts Shows, but There’s a Specific Point Where the Mismatch Starts Causing Real Conflict
Out of more than 1,800 adults surveyed for a 2024 study, one personality trait predicted whether…
Decades of Following the Same Couples Found One Personality Trait Almost Every Long-Married Pair Shares, and It Has Nothing to Do With How Much They Argue
Since 1986, researchers at the University of Michigan have been tracking the same 373 couples who…
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes Just Broke Up for a Third Time in Under a Year, and Relationship Scientists Say Their On-Off Pattern Is More Common Than Most Couples Admit
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have broken up for a third time in less than a…
Your Mismatched Sleep Schedules Could Be Quietly Sabotaging Your Sex Life, Research Suggests
A dyadic study of 91 heterosexual couples found that when partners disagreed about when they actually…