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How to Have Honest Conversations
If you’re craving more authentic connection with others, these five conversation strategies can help.
Why Face-to-Face Connections Matter to Your Health
When our social lives unfold largely in the digital realm, it can damage our relationships and health in surprising ways. Discover why face-to-face connections count.
The Limits of Friendship
A study suggests Facebook users rely on very few friends during a real-life crisis.
3 Key Tips for Making True Friends
Simple steps to ensure your conversations are deepening your friendships.
5 Questions to Consider in Cultivating Healthy Friendships
Positive bonds support our happiness, but soured relationships may need to be re-evaluated. Here are five things to consider.
7 Ideas to Help You Stay Close With a Friend Who Moved Away
Maintaining relationships with friends and loved ones who live far away can be challenging. But you can bridge the gap — and perhaps become closer than ever.
Reach Your Fitness Goals With a Fitness Pact
A good fitness pact can help you (and a friend or two) achieve your health and fitness goals.
Partners in Grime
Gritty, military-inspired team adventures push your mental and physical limits. They may also redefine your idea of fun.
How to Revive Your Relationships
Maintaining a ho-hum relationship can be more stressful than making a healthy shift. Here’s how to break free of relationship inertia.
How to Deal With a High-Maintenance Friend
Have a pal who makes excessive claims on your time and attention? Here’s how to manage the relationship — without making yourself crazy.
How to Talk to 7 Different Personality Types
A guide to successful chatting — with just about anyone — at your next gathering.
The Art of Condolence
When an acquaintance has lost a loved one, it can be difficult to know what to say or do. Here’s some guidance on offering sympathy with grace.
How to Avoid Drama
Are your relationships defined by tired role-play? Here’s how to break out of character.
Buddy System: Naddir Eldeeb’s Success Story
How a determined friend helped one man lose 225 pounds and reclaim his sense of self.
Proof Positive: Genetically, Many Friends Are Like Family
Research duo Nicholas Christakis and John Fowler recently discovered that the friends we choose tend be as genetically similar as our fourth cousins.
How to Stay Close to Friends When One of You Has Children
When people have children, it can be tough to stay connected to those who don’t. With effort and patience, though, relationships can survive the transition.
How to Cope With Loved Ones Who Don’t Support Your New, Healthy Lifestyle
Making the decision to eat healthy can trigger tension with family members or friends. Healthy-eating expert and author Darya Pino Rose shares her strategies for finding peace at the dinner table.
The Art of Conversation
Here’s how to start a conversation with someone you don’t know, as well as conversational killers, body language signs to watch, and how to be a better listener.
How Social Connections Influence Your Health and Habits
You’ve heard by now that you can “catch” obesity from your friends, family — even distant acquaintances. But you may have missed the flip side of that story: Good health and fitness are catching, too.
How Joining Clubs and Organizations Improves Your Health and Well-Being
As we abandon group activities in an attempt to regain time and productivity, we may be risking the loss of a powerful support system – one that’s critical to both our health and happiness.
How to Say Goodbye to a Toxic Friend
Saying ”so long” to a played-out friendship is never easy. Here’s how to do it with grace.