The ‘talking stage’ is a lot like traditional ‘courting’ – with some online complications. Still, it can be a great way to test the waters with a potential partner and establish healthy boundaries.
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The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from the virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.
The convenience of dating apps can also make them difficult to navigate.
The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.
Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier – sometimes scarier – sides of love.
We are unsurprisingly attracted to the familiar.
There was once a time when you could simply put old photos and love letters out of sight and out of mind. Editing your ex out of your digital life is a lot trickier.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his on-and-off girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and others involved in the company were reportedly in a polycule together.
It’s often assumed that people who identify as asexual are also ‘aromantic’ – that they aren’t interested in forming romantic relationships or aren’t capable of doing so.
Major plot points explode like hand grenades in Adrianne Howell’s Hydra, which is ‘never dull’, but implausible. And Alice Nelson’s Faithless, about love and literature, operates in a rarefied world.
These two new romances starring bold, culturally connected heroines from Redfern and Western Sydney break the genre mould – but remain faithful to what readers love about romance.
Romance readers would be familiar with the idea of romantic serialisation - now, Netflix’s Bridgerton brings the format to television, which is why season 1’s Duke of Hastings is nowhere to be seen.
Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’ masculinity they say they can’t find at home.
February 14 brings great expectations.
Dating apps like Bumble have tried to shake up the gender dynamics of dating. Some users say their efforts fall flat.
As many as two-thirds of couples do it.
The author of 70 novels translated into 29 languages, Valerie Parv has passed away just before her 70th birthday.
If both people like and trust each other enough to kiss, the good shared feelings they get makes them more likely to stay together.
Not everyone wants romantic partnership and many singles find more happiness and autonomy in their solo life.
People have plenty of individual reasons to stick with or end a romantic relationship. But researchers have identified some common themes that influence this big decision.
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington
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Post Doctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
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PhD, Paratexts in Genre Fiction, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Tasmania
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
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Professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
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Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
