“The heart wants what it wants—or else it does not care.” Written by the poet Emily Dickinson in the spring of 1862, these words have been quoted countless times in this or similar forms. Mostly, they ...

When you genuinely are romantically interested in someone, you will quickly notice how much they enhance your life and how ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for 12 years. We have had our ups and downs. I was unfaithful at one point, and he left for eight months, but we worked through it all. We are now coming ...

As the world started to open, a numb curiosity to meet people was often on my mind. I felt I wanted to see what and who existed in the world after being trapped in my own space for so long. With this ...

My ex and I married in 2004, and he asked for a divorce in 2017. I was angry at him because he had fallen in love with someone else. Looking back, he saved my life by leaving me. In 2017, my now ...

Can two people really fall in love, sight unseen? Testing the truism that love is blind is the premise of the eponymous Netflix original show, which has entered its fourth season — and which my ...

Dear Annie: I’m in my early 60s, recently divorced after a long marriage and trying to build a new life. A few months ago, I reconnected with someone I dated briefly in my 20s. He’s kind, attentive ...

Think of what it feels like to be in love. What comes to your mind? The giddy excitement of first falling for someone or the everyday calm reassurance of someone at your side? For a handful of people, ...

We tend to think of love as a spontaneous, random, and uncontrolled phenomenon. However, falling in love is neither spontaneous nor random, and it is very much under our control. We fall in love only ...