Cari Romm
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5 Tips for Making a Long-Distance Relationship Work
People in long-distance relationships share tips for how to feel connected to a partner in another city, how often to visit, and how to overcome the loneliness that comes with an LDR. → Read More
What It Means to ‘Feel Fat’
It’s subtly different than having an overarchingly unhealthy body image — and it’s not necessarily connected to anything happening to your body. → Read More
Can You Be Blissfully Unaware of Your Own Stress?
Scientists who study stress and the effects on the body say it’s possible to be unaware of how stressed you truly are. That’s not always a bad thing. → Read More
This Is the Age When Your Self-Esteem Peaks
A new review of self-esteem research found that it increases throughout most of adulthood: Your relationship with yourself is at its best around age 60, and that highest point lasts for a full decade. → Read More
What Does It Mean to Quantify Desirability?
Unpacking that new study on looking for love with people out of your league. → Read More
The Gloomy Psychology of ‘Relationship Cycling’
A new study contains a sad little fact about on-again off-again relationships. → Read More
Gynecologists Are Mad About the Safety Warning on Vaginal Lasers
After the FDA issued a safety warning against using laser therapy for vaginal rejuvenation, some gynecologists are arguing that the agency’s definition of the procedure — which includes treatment for menopause and pelvic pain — is too broad. → Read More
When Your Sense of Self Includes Your Best Friend
A new study on the challenge of knowing where one of you ends and the other begins. → Read More
Natural Cycles Is the First Birth-Control App to Get FDA Approval
It’s the first app to be approved as a contraceptive device, but it still might not be a good idea to rely on its natural family-planning methods to prevent pregnancy. → Read More
What to Do When You Can’t Stand Your Friend’s Significant Other
Advice for keeping a friendship intact, and keeping yourself sane, when someone you love is dating someone you hate being around. → Read More
8 Women on the Biggest Money Fight in Their Relationship
Arguments about how to spend and how to save — but also about power, priorities, and different visions of a shared future. → Read More
How to Deliver a Pep Talk That’s Actually Motivating
Platitudes like “You’ve got this!” aren’t actually that encouraging. Instead, when you’re trying to psych someone up before a big event, try emphasizing things within their control. → Read More
Unsurprisingly, Many Women With PCOS Don’t Trust Their Doctors
Researchers still don’t know what causes polycystic ovary syndrome, and the uncertainty behind the condition means many women struggle both to get a diagnosis and to understand how to manage their health. → Read More
A Thought Exercise for When You Can’t Fall Asleep
New research says that mindfulness therapy, which focuses on helping people get over their anxieties about not falling asleep, may be an effective treatment for insomnia. → Read More
When Your Name Doesn’t Feel Like You
The study of “nominative determinism” says our names shape who we become, but believing that your name doesn’t fit your personality can cause its own kind of impostor syndrome. → Read More
8 Women on Their Earliest (and Possibly Made Up) Memories
In a new study, nearly half of people said the first thing they remember happened at an age that’s impossible for adults to recall. → Read More
There’s a Name for That Inexplicable Post-Sex Sadness
Research shows that postcoital dysphoria — feelings of sadness, anger, or depression after an otherwise enjoyable sexual encounter — is common in both men and women. → Read More
Try This Advice If You’re Terrible at Staying in the Moment
There are two types of “scheduling styles,” each with their own advantages, but one makes people significantly better at being present and in touch with their feelings. → Read More
Do You Freak Out When Your Friend Picks Up the Check?
A new study on something called “reciprocity anxiety” says it’s a personality trait to be anxious about the prospect of owing people money or favors. → Read More
A Sexuality Researcher Explains a Big Unanswered Question in Sex Studies
And why scientists still don’t have a way to measure a key component of our sex lives. → Read More