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The spouse who “suddenly” wants a divorce has probably been thinking about it for months, sometimes years. Meanwhile, the other person is still...
If you have a phone, you’ve done it. A friend asks if you’re still on for the weekend, the text sits unanswered for three days, and then you fire...
Mercury begins a long square with Jupiter, so keep promises modest and effort generous as big opinions fly around.
Picture this: you quit your job and sell your car because a pastor on YouTube said Jesus was coming this week. Then picture the morning after: you...
First dates are still pretty much the same awkward round of questions they’ve always been. Where’d you grow up? What do you do for work? Have you...
You’ve probably done it this week. Your partner says they’ll handle the holiday plans this year, and your eyes go straight to the ceiling. Last...
Being married means giving stuff up. You knew that going in. What you probably didn’t expect was an itemized list of sacrifices from your...
Ask any woman who’s been on hormonal birth control for half their life how it’s going, and you’ll probably get a long sigh before you get an...
Saturn’s building trine to Mars pairs ambition with follow-through, while Jupiter’s sextile to the Sun adds a dose of optimism.
Consider this week your permission slip to exhale a little, stargazer. Saturn’s opposition to the Sun ends today, lifting a heavy weight many of us...
Open houses are supposed to make the house feel easy to love. You’re looking at the kitchen and mentally placing your furniture while the less...
When you’ve been staring at the ceiling for three hours, you’ll do some dumb sh*t to fall asleep. The internet’s newest suggestion is to pour...
You know that one friend whose texts are always a little…off? You tell him your dog died and he answers with a thumbs-up and an update about his...
A new dating buzzword is circulating, and for once it describes something nice. The idea is that you lead with honesty about your feelings and stop...
If you want to see a grown adult panic, call them before texting. They’ll stare at the screen until it stops ringing, then text you to ask who died....
The longer you go without sex, the easier it is to forget why you ever cared so much about having it. A few months in, and the thought of getting...
Dating apps take your money and your patience, then sometimes hand you three hours with a guy who says “females” too much. So it’s hard to blame...
The Moon spends its last day in Libra before tomorrow's New Moon, putting harmony and great friends at the top of everyone's list.
Ever been twenty minutes into a first date and thought, yeah, this isn’t it? They’ve brought up their ex three times, and your drink is still...
Mars squares Venus on its way to a Saturday peak, so patience could run short in matters of love and money.
That little “are you still watching?” prompt pops up, and you’re not sure if you should feel judged, guilty, or both. It’s a little rich...
Friends always say the same couple of things after they find out you’ve been cheated on. You deserve better, and you’ll come out of this stronger....
Grown men who didn’t shed a tear at their own wedding will sob into a foam finger when their team blows a lead in the fourth quarter. The guys...
Cats will chase almost anything that moves across a floor, so it’s easy to assume they keep a house free of spiders. Anyone who’s lived with one...
Babies don’t get to pick where they’re born. They also don’t get a say in the local smoking rate or how far the nearest hospital is, and both of...
Mars and Uranus reach their sextile today, giving everyone the courage to break out of a rut and try something new.
Cat people have long been cast as lonely weirdos, devoted to an animal that would probably eat their face if they died on the kitchen floor. Now...
If you grew up with a grandma who snapped the lid on a Tupperware and promised dinner would be even better tomorrow, you probably knew she was right....
We’ve all heard the myths about when men and women supposedly hit their sexual peak. Men top out around 18, and women don’t hit their stride until...
Some nights out leave you buzzing when you get home, still replaying conversations and sending people dumb sh*t you forgot to show them earlier. Other...
The Moon meets Jupiter early, putting everyone in a lucky mood before Mercury and Venus finally unite in Scorpio tonight.
Before I quit caffeine, I looked at decaf coffee the way I looked at nonalcoholic beer. What the hell is the point? (For the record, I’ve since quit...
It happens to all of us in relationships eventually. One person is super horny and making it very clear that they want to have sex…like now. But the...
There’s no lonelier feeling than lying next to someone who just had a toe-curling orgasm while you stare at the darn ceiling fan, wondering how long...
The frustrating (and slightly scary) thing about liars is that they usually look normal and calm while they’re doing it. Scott Taylor, a former FBI...
A Leo Moon paired with Mars makes everyone impatient early, but a new Saturn-Mars trine turns big talk into progress.
Most of us will spend hours researching the new air fryer we want or comparing flights for a four-day vacation. Meanwhile, huge chunks of our actual...
Keeping your phone on silent feels responsible. You’re not letting every text, email, and random app notification boss you around all day. You’re...
You sent the last text. You made the last plan. You checked in after their bad week, remembered what they were nervous about, then asked how it went....
Fall feels like fall again, and with it comes the urge to reorganize your entire life in one weekend. Hold that thought for a minute, stargazer. The...
There are men walking around with faces that make strangers assume they’d be good at protecting children and making good fathers. They don’t have...
There’s something very funny about a man who looks like he could change a tire in the rain walking around with a six-pound dog named Princess. He...
Few things test a relationship like two boarding passes, one printed with 2A and the other stuck in 34E. New York content creator Madeleine McAdam...
If you’ve ever proclaimed that your love language is acts of service while staring directly at an overflowing trash can, you’ve turned a 1992...
You used to get a text that said, “Stuck in traffic!” and that was pretty much it. Now you can check their location on Instagram and see they’re...
The decline of a friendship is a strange thing to go through. You keep making plans because you’ve known each other forever and things are...
Dating apps sort of feel like looking for a new job. You curate your profile to give the best version of you, hope you get the interview (aka date),...
Being called low-maintenance on a date used to sound flattering, like “gee thanks, I know, I just always go with the flow.” Then you date for a...
Mercury squares Mars and Pluto on the same day, so expect blunt conversations. Try not to take every comment personally.
In their last weeks, people sometimes start talking to their mother. The thing is, their mom’s been dead for 40 years. Hospice workers see this...