You know that couple who’s been together for decades and still seems to genuinely enjoy each other’s company? The ones who laugh at each other’s jokes, have inside references you don’t understand, and ...

“Strong-ties make the world smaller, weak-ties make it bigger.” —Mark Granovetter “Love degrades the world from significant people, while friendship can fill it with such people.” —Avinoam Ben-Ze’ev ...

We like to think we make our own romantic decisions, following our hearts and learning from experience. But our friends’ relationships hold more influence over our love lives than we care to admit.

There's no rulebook to friendship. It takes a balance of tough love mixed with inside jokes and whatever other quirky things the two of you have made up over the years to keep a friendship spicy and ...

Finding true friendship is often described as rare, but when it happens, it carries the depth and familiarity of something long-lived. These bonds are built on shared values, trust and intention, and ...

Long-term friendships can be very valuable, but sometimes people drift apart and the friendship ends, which can be sad. What would you do if you had a friend who stopped contacting you and the ...

This post is the last in a series of three articles written by students in my Spring 2019 Close Relationships course. All three posts focus on how your larger network of friends and family can affect ...

DEAR ERIC: “Bella” and I met more than 35 years ago as volunteers. We maintained a friendship despite totally different life paths: she had a string of relationships that never went very far; I ...