If your partner overshares on social media, posting your fights, your kids or your private moments, it can feel like a breach of trust. Here’s how to agree on online boundaries you can both live with.
Sharing location with your spouse can be a convenience, a comfort or a form of control. Here’s how to decide what works for your marriage, and the warning signs that tracking has crossed a line.
If your husband is still friends with his ex, it can be completely harmless or a real threat to trust. Here’s how to tell the difference, what to say, and how to agree on boundaries you both can live with.
If you found something on your husband’s phone that hurt or scared you, the most important thing to do first is nothing dramatic. Put the phone down, breathe, and give yourself time before you confront him, text the other person, tell everyone you know or make big decisions. What you found may be exactly what…
An open marriage is a marriage in which both spouses agree that one or both may have sexual or romantic relationships with other people, with clear rules they’ve negotiated together. What separates it from cheating is full knowledge and enthusiastic consent from both partners. Some couples find it works for them, and many find it…
Whether it’s a problem that your husband likes other women’s photos online depends on three things: how much, how secret and how it makes you feel. An occasional like on a friend’s vacation picture is very different from a pattern of liking, following or messaging women he finds attractive, especially if he hides it or…
Whether using an AI chatbot or “AI companion” counts as cheating depends on what you and your spouse have agreed is a breach of trust. There’s no universal rule. Most couples and counselors look at the same things they look at with any other relationship outside the marriage: secrecy, emotional or romantic intimacy, sexual content,…
Checking your partner’s phone in secret usually isn’t okay, even when you’re worried, because it breaks trust and rarely gives you the peace you’re looking for. If you find nothing, you may not believe it. If you find something, you’ll face it with the added complication of how you found it. Couples who agree openly…
A toxic relationship is one in which the patterns between you regularly leave one or both people feeling drained, anxious, disrespected or smaller than they were. The signs are usually less about one dramatic event and more about a steady drip: constant criticism, contempt, guilt-tripping, drama, keeping score, jealousy and a feeling that you’re always…
The most useful questions to ask after infidelity are the ones that help the hurt partner understand what happened, feel safe, and decide what comes next, without turning every conversation into an interrogation. Many couples find that a mix of factual questions (“Is it over?”), questions about the future (“What are you willing to do?”)…