The quality of romantic relationships influences physical and mental health. However,
maintaining happy and healthy relationships is challenging; relationship satisfaction …

People in close relationships can, and often do, experience ambivalence (ie, mixed feelings)
toward their romantic partner. Although ambivalence is common and consequential …

Satisfying romantic relationships offer numerous social and health benefits, making it critical
to understand the trajectory of relationship satisfaction. In recent years, research has begun …

Feeling loved (loved, cared for, accepted, valued, understood) is inherently dyadic, yet most
prior theoretical perspectives and investigations have focused on how actors feeling (un) …

Evidence suggesting that implicit partner evaluations (IPEs), but not explicit evaluations
(EPEs), can predict later changes in satisfaction and relationship status has led researchers …

Some of the most frequent and important cognitions in everyday life are about close
relationships—interpersonal cognition. Research at the intersection of close relationships …

Romantic relationships are one of the most important sources of people's wellbeing,
happiness, and health (eg, Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010; Robles et al., 2014). The …

For decades, research on couples has attempted to understand the source of relationship
decay by explicitly asking people how they evaluate their relationships. Ironically, however …