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Men have been handed some ridiculous ideas about how long sex is supposed to last. Movies haven’t helped. Porn definitely hasn’t helped. Because...
Smoking is expensive, inconvenient, terrible for you, and now something you usually have to walk half a block away from everyone else to do....
Most relationships don’t end with a slamming door. Sometimes they end on a random night, with two people sitting ten feet apart and realizing they...
Virgo season is done — the Sun moves into Libra today. Saturn opposition Mercury ends too. It's a big shift on both fronts.
If you’ve traveled internationally, you’ve probably experienced this at least once: you leave a country wondering if you personally pissed it off....
Most people know what a bad fight looks like. Someone gets defensive, someone says the thing they meant to keep to themselves, and now you’re both...
Two new Mars aspects are pulling in opposite directions today. Mercury sextile Jupiter exact means big thinking is fully backed up.
Restaurant workers hear certain phrases and immediately know what customer they’re dealing with. “I’m not one to complain, but…” is up...
Out-of-body experiences are one of those things science can explain away until somebody reports seeing something they really shouldn’t have been...
You didn’t see it coming. No one ever does. One day you’re fine. Months later, you’re sitting across from each other at dinner with nothing to...
This week has a lot to say about other people, which is inconvenient because other people are usually where things get complicated. Libra season...
There’s pushing through discomfort, and then there’s finishing a Hyrox race while actively shi**ing yourself in front of hundreds of people....
There’s going to come a moment this autumn when you’re two drinks in and wondering why you feel like you’ve had four. The answer could be the...
By your 40s, you’ve probably dated enough people to know that a good salary can still come with some very bad decisions. A big paycheck loses some...
The romantic comedy version of this survey would end with all 5,000 respondents finding love. The actual version is more like: thanks, but I already...
Dinner and a movie. Movie and dinner. Maybe dinner, then going home because the movie starts to feel like a lot. If that’s become your date-night...
Everyone has had a kiss that made them think, “Oh, no.” Maybe you liked the person five seconds earlier. Maybe you were fully prepared to keep...
Mercury opposing Saturn finally lets go today — exhale, the week earned it. But notice what's quietly beginning underneath the relief.
Getting over a crush should be easy. It’s just a crush. But then you’re lying in bed rereading a three-week-old text and wondering if that emoji...
“Body count” discourse has somehow turned into one of the internet’s favorite ways to make dating even more exhausting. People argue over what...
There are a million ways to overthink a relationship. Attachment styles. Love languages. Compatibility quizzes. A late-night Reddit search after one...
Saturn is bearing down on Mercury, but Jupiter just kicked in today. The week is finally starting to give something back.
Before you read another word, think about the rules you’ve made for your own life. Maybe you have to hit a certain career milestone by 35. Maybe...
Getting divorced and dating again are two very different experiences. One ends a relationship. The other drops you into a dating world that probably...
OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue went on Australian radio in 2024 and argued that men should cheat on their wives. In her view, if a man works all day and...
The Moon into Sagittarius this morning lifts the whole emotional register — but Saturn is still building. Use the breathing room.
Look, binge drinking in college is pretty normal, stupid or not. Lord knows I’ve had my fair share of jungle juice and Four Loko. But BORGs have...
Tuesday tests relationships and judgment, asking us to slow down, question first reactions, and give conversations room to breathe.
For many adults, the intellectually interesting part of life seems to drop off a few years after college graduation. The seminars are gone, the random...
Opening a relationship can make two otherwise reasonable adults believe they can predict every possible emotion they’re about to have. So they make...
Age-gap relationships come with a lot of assumptions. The older person is supposed to be stable, established, maybe a little wiser. The younger one...
People say “cheating” and “affair” like they mean the same thing, but most of us hear something different when each word comes up. One sounds...
Today is the kind of Monday where everything wants something from you at once. Pick a direction and commit.
Two things are happening this week, and they don’t have much in common. Tuesday runs deep — Pluto squaring Venus while the Moon moves through...
Some highway exits have a gas station, a Subway, and maybe a weird gift shop where everything’s covered in dust. Others have a fire that’s been...
Americans are losing an obscene amount of money to people they met online, fell for, and eventually discovered didn’t exist in quite the way they...
Erectile dysfunction is usually thought of as something waiting for men at the end of middle age, right there with back pain and developing a sudden...
There are the usual awful signs your period is coming. Waking up with sore boobs. That first twinge of cramps. Feeling absolute rage at the slow...
Most marriages don’t fall apart all at once. It usually starts with smaller things that are easy to explain away. You talk less. Touch less. Plans...
Couples in long-term relationships know their partners very well. Almost too well. So well, in fact, that it can feel like there isn’t much left to...
Some dates carry their own gravity, and today is one of them — a day to pause and hold in mind. The sky is gentle today.
Few things can turn an otherwise functional adult into an overthinking lunatic than an unanswered text. You check your phone, reread the conversation,...
Suspecting your spouse is cheating is a miserable place to live. You don’t know enough to accuse them, but you’ve noticed small things, and it’s...
Pumpkin spice has colonized everything. Candles, dog treats, cream cheese, face masks—the flavor profile of a mediocre pie somehow became the smell...
Uranus stationed retrograde today, turning its disruptive energy inward instead of outward. A lot of endings. A lot of beginnings.
The average American spends 16 minutes in the shower. Dermatologists say five to ten is the max. An environmental scientist says three. No one will...
Vegans. You either love them or you want to run as soon as they start talking. Science just gave them one more thing to be smug about—and this time,...
Wanting to be happy is the most human thing there is. The research on how to actually get there is both obvious and counterintuitive. A new paper in...
The Moon moves into Virgo midmorning, and the Moon-Venus sextile keeps the day's warmth running all the way through.
Moon trine Saturn grounds the morning with structural confidence, and Moon conjunction Jupiter opens the afternoon with warmth.