If you crave an “I love you” from your parents, Sun and Nibungco suggest recognizing the other ways they give and receive love. The five love languages can be a helpful guide, Sun says.

It is usually inappropriate to say “I love you” in two major circumstances: (a) when said too early in the relationship, thus not letting time make the loving attitude more profound, and (b ...

One day, you too might have to face a diagnosis and a future without those you love, including the pot-roast baby who is now a 26-year-old man. The prospect feels unbearable, and yet the only way ...

You're in love, again. Not just a little bit in love, but an all-encompassing "I've met my soulmate" kind of love. This feels true and real for you, but your friends are giving you the side eye.

Distracted by Pam We were in culinary school together. Lectures started at 7 a.m., painfully early back then. Pam was one of the very few women in our class, and I couldn’t stop looking at her ...

You might think “companionate love” sounds a little, well, disappointing. I certainly did the first time I heard it, on the heels of the amateur romantic comedy I described above.

3. “A Sunday Kind of Love” by Etta James (1960) “‘I want a Sunday kind of love, a love to last past Saturday night’—what an iconic lyric.