Attachment
What holds up over forty years
Long-running studies of couples who stayed together describe something less dramatic than the advice industry implies.
Topic
research
Every Relationship Punch article tagged research — 6 pieces across 2 sections.
Attachment
The stories couples tell about how they met
Researchers can predict a good deal from how a couple narrates its own history, which says something about what narration does.
Dating
Being single without treating it as a waiting room
The research on wellbeing and relationship status is more complicated than the assumption behind most dating advice.
Dating
What people say they want and what they choose
Stated preferences and actual choices diverge sharply in the research, which explains a good deal of frustration with dating.
Attachment
Attachment styles, minus the pop psychology
A real research tradition that has been flattened into a personality quiz, and the accurate version is more useful than the popular one.
Attachment
What the research on lasting couples actually found
Decades of observational work point at a small number of behaviours, and most of them are about ordinary moments rather than crises.