You clicked on this article for a reason — someone in your life messed up (like, big time). Now, you’re faced with a dilemma: Should you give them a second chance, or should you walk away from the relationship, so that you never have to deal with their baggage ever...
It is hard enough to meet someone in this crazy world you actually like: You get each other’s jokes, find each other wildly attractive, and have undeniable chemistry over drinks and conversation. Then comes the sex part, and — aw man: It’s terrible. The kissing is bad, the touching...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
The average American full-time employee spent 6 hours and 24 minutes per day working or commuting to work in 2016. That’s 44 hours and 52 minutes per week (for reference, there are 168 hours in a week). And more damningly, that includes the weekends. But let’s be...
I saw a post on Reddit’s super-popular personal finance forum earlier today that made my eyes bleed and my heart cry. “Friend declined pay raise because he’d ‘make less money,’” the post reads. That much is pretty self-explanatory, but to briefly summarize: A man relays the story...
A recent humor piece in the New Yorker offered a series of questions to ask yourself to help decide if you’re actually ready to be friends with someone with a kid. It is absolutely correct on most counts: Being friends with someone who has a kid will...
Smokers are really easy to hate, if for no other reason than that you can usually smell them from a mile away. Yet the idea persists that some people are “secret smokers” who successfully hide their smelly habit from coworkers, friends and loved ones for years, even...
We’ve written before about how there’s a cure for chronic lateness, which basically boils down to recognizing your lack of empathy and embracing your innately selfish nature: “Chronically late people need to find a motivation for making punctuality a priority,” says Ron Helpman, a psychotherapist in New...
One of the unfortunate byproducts of my newfound sobriety has been an inability to sleep in past 7 a.m. It used to be that a noxious combo of booze and other stuff could reliably knock me out until noon. Now, however, my well-rested, ascetic brain is awoken by...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Dudes: Hapless incompetents who shortcut everything and have a bold lack of self-regard for how things look. They mess up the laundry and burn water. They can’t work a dishwasher properly, and wouldn’t know what to do when you hand them a baby. At least, that’s long...
“MOTHERF*****!” That’s my curse word of choice every time I drop something, or bang my motherf***ing knee into my motherf***ing desk a-motherf***ing-gain. But then, perhaps I shouldn’t call it my word of choice, because it feels completely involuntary: I can’t help myself from blasting out this phrase every single...
