While many people have languished during the Covid-19 pandemic, others have felt a more complicated state called emotional ambivalence: the simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions ...

Each of us is full of inconsistencies and inconstancies. Looking back at our own lives, each of us would not see uniformity but diversity and multiplicity. The philosopher Montaigne (1533-1592) notes, ...

It is quite common for people not to be able to make up their minds. One of the most famous literary examples comes from Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, in which the protagonist Hamlet poses the ...

Kelley Kitley, 45, thought her family was complete with two sons and a daughter. Then, after realizing she was a few days late getting her period, she took a pregnancy test. It was positive. "I was in ...

Life often presents mixed emotions. This feeling is called ambivalence. It means having conflicting feelings about the same ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Mixed feelings in relationships can stem from unresolved ...