I’ll be honest about my naivety—for a long time, I thought relationship security meant everything feeling easy all the time.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Future-proofing is a newly packaged dating trend that, ...

Future faking is the dating equivalent of being promised a penthouse view and ending up in a studio with a view of the parking lot. This happens when someone paints a very detailed and very romantic ...

A few weeks ago, I received a message from someone on Instagram. Her name was Tee. She described how her long-distance relationship had slowly become unmanageable. Too many obstacles. Not enough ...