A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.