Relationships & Society
In homes common across the 1960s and 1970s, children learned to read a parent’s mood…
My father learned to read a room before he learned to read a book.
Relationships & Society
Why the first year of retirement can be a difficult adjustment
My dad spent the better part of forty years walking into the same office.
Relationships & Society
Why classroom performance does not capture every kind of practical ability
There's a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off.
Relationships & Society
My dad has no close friends, and I’ve stopped trying to fix it because I finally…
My father is getting older and he has no close friends.
Relationships & Society
Why some older adults feel less visible in ageist cultures
I first watched my mother disappear at a dinner party about three years ago.
Relationships & Society
Thought by Hannah Arendt: “Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone…
A packed room can be the loneliest place there is.
Relationships & Society
Thought by Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but…
Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding views that others find inadmissible.
Relationships & Society
10 habits of grandparents who build strong bonds with their grandchildren
The bond between a grandparent and a grandchild can be one of the strongest a person ever has, and the curious part is that it rarely happens by accident.
Relationships & Society
My mother is 65 and has no close friends, and what gets me is that she used to have so…
My mum is sitting at her kitchen table with a cup of tea going cold in front of her.
Relationships & Society
9 phrases that make people quietly pull away from you in conversation
Listen to any long conversation closely enough and you'll notice that certain phrases keep surfacing — small, throwaway constructions that seem harmless on the surface but quietly do a lot of work.
Relationships & Society
If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant or bar, you probably learned more about people in…
If you've ever worked in hospitality, you know things about people that most never have to learn, and you learned them fast.
Relationships & Society
I let my phone die for one entire weekend without telling anyone — and the strange thing…
I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday.