From Secrets to Stories: Choosing When to Share Your Past

Relationship success is a science. Long-term love has less to do with the falling part than it does with the maintaining part. We’re all familiar with the falling, if not through first-hand experience then from movies, music and social media. Society loves to highlight the beginnings of relationships: The meeting, ...

Of the many topics I write about, RELATIONSHIPS top them. I am literally inundated with questions about what people should and shouldn’t do in relationships, how certain scenarios should be handled, and when it’s time to pull the plug. In light of this, here is an incomplete list of things you ...

Q: Dear Darcy, I ended up sleeping with my best friend’s ex and now she hates me... A couple of weeks before I did it I asked her hypothetically if it would be okay and she said no, however, when I [slept with him] she and I were having severe ...

It’s impossible to cheat-proof your relationship. That’s the first truth about cheating, and it’s probably why I personally don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it in my own relationship. A cheater’s going to cheat no matter how intently you try to micromanage their behaviors. You simply can’t be ...

The only thing that makes me cringe more than hearing Trump speak is the statistic that 49% of single American women have been on the receiving end of a penis photo they didn’t request. From accidental penis tweets and unsolicited sexts to cyber-flashing random women on subway trains through AirDrop, ...

It recently occurred to me that although we’re in month five of the pandemic, my wife Steph and I have yet to discuss how we each want to live for the foreseeable future. Like, the nuts and bolts of staying safe - risks we’re willing to take in the name ...