Relationships
Dating, friendships, colleagues, and more — Vox explores how to think about relationships in life.

Being an only child doesn’t mess you up for life. We promise.


Americans are finally falling in love with the US version of the British reality hit. Fancy that!


A definitive guide to managing your children’s tech.

“The garden party,” “old money,” and “cool girl” weddings are starting to feel more like dinner parties.

How to handle tension in the teen years without ruining your relationship.


It’s not as scary as you might think.


The catastrophic effects of climate change can happen anywhere. Here’s how to help your kids cope before, during, and after an emergency.


Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.


If you want to get away together, but you don’t want to fight, here’s what you need to know.


The French: They’re just like us.


Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.


Are you destined to always be the “eldest daughter”?


My friend wrote a book about friendship. Here’s what we learned about ours.


A practical guide to navigating a fractured support system.


All is not lost if they are dating a complete loser.

You can have healthy disagreements with the people in your life.

Your neighborhood watering hole is more important than you think.


The relationship style has been the topic of talky articles and books. Finally, it’s the sexiest element of the year’s sexiest movie.

First comes love, then comes … moving in together.


Author Rhaina Cohen on what we can learn from people who choose a friend as a life partner.

Don’t move in with your significant other without discussing these things first.

Couples get hundreds of legal and economic privileges single people don’t. If that feels unfair, it’s because it is.


A guide to having actually interesting conversations with strangers.


In the conversation about open marriages and polyamory, America’s sexual anxieties are on full display.


Here’s how to interpret your own feelings.

Expert-approved tips — both big and small — to take you into 2024 and beyond.

We shouldn’t give up on others so easily.

Hinge has tried its darnedest to fix online dating. Is the real problem us?

“We don’t avoid conversations because they don’t matter. We avoid them because they do matter.”

To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?


These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.


Intergenerational friendships make your life richer. Here’s how to cultivate them.

From “red flags” to “emotional load,” popular terms on platforms like TikTok can warp our IRL relationships.

Compassionate ways to let a friend or family member know you’re looking out for them.

Americans are having smaller families. Why are we obsessed with large ones?

Raising kids in our modern consumer culture is challenging. These tips can help.


Your parents or other loved ones could need you one day. Here’s how to get ready.

Millennials are facing an elder care crisis nobody prepared them for.