Friends

If you’re craving more authentic connection with others, these five conversation strategies can help.

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.

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.

A good fitness pact can help you (and a friend or two) achieve your health and fitness goals.

Gritty, military-inspired team adventures push your mental and physical limits. They may also redefine your idea of fun.

Maintaining a ho-hum relationship can be more stressful than making a healthy shift. Here’s how to break free of relationship inertia.

Have a pal who makes excessive claims on your time and attention? Here’s how to manage the relationship — without making yourself crazy.

A guide to successful chatting — with just about anyone — at your next gathering.

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.

Are your relationships defined by tired role-play? Here’s how to break out of character.

How a determined friend helped one man lose 225 pounds and reclaim his sense of self.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Saying ”so long” to a played-out friendship is never easy. Here’s how to do it with grace.