Perspectives

The same moment can feel very different from the other side.

Each article offers a possible reading, not a verdict about your partner or about men and women. Understanding another view does not erase what happened or require you to agree with it.

Featured · His perspective

Why he may go quiet after the fight

Quiet after a fight can come from overload. That possibility does not make an open-ended disappearance okay.

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Her perspective

Why she may not move on until it is named

A calm room does not always mean the rupture feels over.

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Touched out and touch-starved in the same house

After a baby or a long stretch of caregiving, one partner may feel over-touched while the other feels painfully far away.