Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. As the year comes to a close, many of us reflect on our ...

What does it mean to hold power in a relationship? If you've ever felt like the person in "control" of a relationship, you might intuitively know that having power, in many ways, means having less to ...

Loving after a narcissist is possible when you know how to heal. Discover how to regain emotional security and trust again ...

You have a strained relationship with your father, but he recently developed health issues and needs someone to care for him. You don't feel emotionally fulfilled in your marriage, but you've been ...

Looking back, the signs were there. “For one, he was kind of rude to my friends,” Jess says. “And he would totally shut down whenever he got upset.” Still, it wasn’t until after they broke up that ...

Annie: Once you have some distance and time away from the relationship, try to get curious and ask yourself what you liked and didn’t like.

You might have heard the term "relationship escalator" before — often used to describe the traditional progression of a romance from first date to monogamous relationship to moving in together to ...

Although nothing in your life can last eternally, you are most likely to wish that your closest relationship will. As partners get closer and closer to each other over the months and years of their ...

Try to talk honestly about what money represents — security, freedom, pleasure — without turning each other into the problem.