Marriage is often treated like a one-time promise carved in stone—unchanging, unquestioned, and permanent. But what if that thinking is part of the problem? We’re expected to evolve, adapt, and ...

During an interview, Dr. Umar Johnson called out the Black community for confusing “pleasure contracts” with relationships. The Pan-African psychologist sat down with SLTV’s So Litty TV to drop his ...

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Open relationships are becoming increasingly common. In fact, several people in my weekly therapy groups report that opening up their relationship saved their relationship. As you probably know, open ...

Communication between human beings is full of implicit assumptions. We resent the other for not behaving as we'd like or for not taking our needs into account, but we don't know how to express our ...