William B. Gudykunst and his colleagues (1995) have argued that a stage model of relationship development is built on the assumption that relationships are characterized by patterns and regularities that are relatively consistent across relationships....

A relationship is a specific connection between objects, entities or concepts. Typical forms of relationship are social relationships between people, causal relationships between events, and mathematical or theoretical relationships between components...

Boys can steal your heart away, like a thief in the night. It is kind of like love at first sight. We all want to find that special someone fast, but we should move slow to make it last. It's...

The real problem with relationships is not the fact that relationship problems frequently complicate our lives. The real problem with relationships is that most of us have never learned what constitutes a healthy relationship. We don't get taught in school the specific thoughts...

Admit it. You love her, you really do, but sometimes you’d like some . . . variety. Perhaps a different body type. Or maybe you’d like to see or hear how someone else responds to your moves. It’s tough to suppress that natural “hunter”...

Not long ago, I met a very attractive single mother of two at a dinner party in Sag Harbor, New York. We were seated next to each other—a “soft” setup—and by dessert, we were punctuating our stories with little touches: her hand on my...