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New Site Helps Couples Befriend Other Couples, Swears It’s Not for Swingers

Are you one of those couples who, now that you live in the suburbs and shop at Whole Foods, can’t

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This Is the BuzzFeed Quiz Approach to Finding a Love Connection

One of the frequent criticisms of the tech scene is that its energies favor problems faced by its well educated, urban-living-suburban-born nouveaux yuppie elite. If true, then the programmers and...

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Can Old and Young Really Build Lasting Friendships?

Maybe both, but I’m going to bet that most of us tell our much younger and older friends about our trip to Sicily while we reveal the messier details of our lives mainly to our contemporaries. That may...

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Six-Word Nuggets From Famous People

For me, six words is a way into many other worlds, communities and causes.

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10 Tips for Parents to Help Their Children Handle Social Struggles

Normal pain is part of growing up—and parents often make things worse when they intervene.

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Zaha Hadid’s Soft Side

Jonathan B. Wimpenny honors the memory, and steadfast friendship, of Zaha Hadid.

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How Harvard Administrators Went Wrong on Single-Gender Groups

Here's hoping the administration leads by example.

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The Crappy Person Checklist

How do you know if someone is bad for you?

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Gender Differences in Friendships Increasingly Important as Marriage Rates Drop

Who cares? Anyone who's planning on getting old.

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Here’s How to Strengthen Your Network

Recent research for instance, reveals that the perceived difficulty of climbing a hill is significantly reduced if we have a friend stand at our side as we survey the incline and make our assessment.

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Six Reasons Horrible Bosses Are a Blessing in Disguise

If you dread going into work each morning, remember that your current situation is just a stepping stone to something better.

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How Being Friends With Someone Who Has Dementia Can Be Good for You Both

A recent study finds that friends ought not let friends with dementia be lonely.

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Belle Isle Sees the Reunion of Reiner and Freeman for Another Magical Musing...

The Magic of Belle Isle is a warm, human, feel-good experience about bringing out the best in people, one that brings out Morgan Freeman’s best performance in years. He plays a grizzled old drunk...

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Puppy Love in Dogfight: Stage Remake of Nancy Savoca’s 1991 Film Finds New...

With so much mediocre junk currently polluting both stage and screen, it’s encouraging to visit the modest but robustly entertaining new musical Dogfight at Second Stage. Under the solid direction of...

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Aging, Gracefully: Quel Plaisir! All Together is ‘a Sweet, Thoughtful and...

Jane Fonda’s first French-speaking film in 40 years finds her leading a joyous ensemble of septuagenarians in a sweet, thoughtful and spirited examination of how to grow old with dignity and pride in...

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David Zwirner Just Absolutely Loves Steve Cohen

Today in The New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten offers us an impressive profile of David Zwirner. There’s plenty of great new stuff (he employs a management consultant formerly of Goldman Sachs and McKinsey...

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Improve Your Life By Sending These Five Simple Emails

I’ve covered a lot of research on how to make your life better but many people struggle with implementing changes because it seems like a major undertaking. It doesn’t have to be. You can make strides...

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How ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Accidentally Became the Realest Show on TV

If you’ve never watched Bachelor in Paradise, a cursory scan of the show’s structural quirks might make you feel like you took peyote then started thumbing through Tinder. The deranged-kitsch...

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‘Booksmart’ Brilliantly Conveys How Scary It Is to Be Young

Booksmart comes out this Friday, and everything you might have heard about the movie is probably accurate. Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut is a hysterically funny peep into the final days of high...

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Lauren Mechling on Why Her Novel About Friendship Had to Feel Like ‘A Gut Punch’

Friendship is essential yet prickly. It requires time and effort that comes in short supply in adulthood. When was the last time someone above the age of 30 talked about their new friend with whom...

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