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A Crucial Sign That Someone is Worth Going Out With

There is one sign that more than any other indicates that someone may well be a rewarding and trustworthy person to go out with: that they are prepared to go to therapy.

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There Are No Small Issues in Love

The only way to prevent the largest problems is to focus exhaustively and with dark good humour on the very smallest ones.

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On Not Being Very Good at Love

Our romantic fiascos can get a little less arduous the more we can bring ourselves to shrug our shoulders and confess with a very dark smile: I really can’t do this thing called love.

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Beware Those We Fall in Love With

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Beware Those We Fall in Love With

The word ‘madness’ tends to bring to mind distinctly lurid and macabre associations: psychiatric wards, staring eyes, murder weapons, hideous…
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Mental Illness and Love

Mental Illness and Love

When we speculate on the causes of mental illness, we typically imagine some form of chemical imbalance or damage to…
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The Psychology of Ghosting

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The Psychology of Ghosting

We won’t get too far in the dating world without stumbling upon the melancholy phenomenon known as ghosting: someone we…
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