Relationships & Desire

I liked my outfit and posted a picture. A few ex-boyfriends saw something else: an attempt to impress other men.

He keeps finding reasons to keep us talking. We both have partners, and I cannot tell whether his attention means attraction.

Sharing bills, sex, and everyday life can still leave the difficult things unspoken. I’m trying to understand what that leaves between us.

At 2 a.m., my married boss walked me to my hotel and brought up a past near-encounter. Was he trying to find out whether I’d sleep with him?

Flirting can feel effortless until someone’s response matters. That doesn’t make awkwardness a dependable sign of attraction.

He makes me feel calm and safe. After five months and our first kiss, I’m still unsure whether our attraction and curiosity match.

After six women ended things with nearly the same kind words, I started wondering what a gentle rejection could actually tell me.

After years as colleagues, four months of close attention felt like something more. His answer when I asked him out left me with questions.

I like the man I live with. We share late-night conversations and the same sense of humor, but I still don’t know how he’d hear an invitation.

We have been married for about ten years and have two children. Until recently, our sex life was quiet enough that calling it a rhythm would have been generous. Months could pass between one occasion and the next. There was no danger of losing count. I had begun to feel…

Sexual compatibility is often treated as a bonus: lovely when it’s there, secondary to the supposedly sturdier business of love, kindness and shared plans. But for some people, it is not an ornament on a relationship. It is part of the structure. That does not make it everyone’s priority—or make…

At a wedding, a woman the husband found attractive came over to speak with someone at their table. He looked at her, then reached for his wife’s thigh. His wife says she expected the touch. It is part of a pattern: when her husband notices someone attractive in public—or on…