A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you’ll probably ignore.

It seems flattering, but all people want is security in the face of a shaky future, a psychologist explains.

People who are averse to confrontation tend to value harmony over directness and honesty.

It's all exhilarating escapism until someone asks for a video call.

There's a limit to how many relationships we can keep going at any given time.

On dating apps, couples looking for female, queer, poly partners often set requirements that veer more towards sexual servitude than healthy relationships.

"Financial infidelity is a lot like sexual infidelity, in the sense that both include lies, deceit, and secrets."

Across 27 countries, people care more about family relationships than mating.

We look for similarities between our parents and partners because it gives us a comfortable sense of familiarity, researchers say.

A bad past or troubled childhood can cause anxiety that prevents people from promising to be or staying in long relationships.

It's Freudian, pumpkin.

A U.S.-based sociologist found "sugar" relationships are more than just starved college students and lonely men trying to use each other.

"They lost their son. We had lost our parents. The best idea was to stay together as one, small happy family."

Close friendships with co-workers can help us perform better -- or they can distract and drain us emotionally.

Self-proclaimed sapiosexuals are not woke, smart or unique -- they're just elitist.

In the wake of #MeToo, our culture has had to contend with gaslighting and insincerity masquerading as sorries.

New relationships seem different because we barely know the person; once we do, they settle into the same old patterns.