This is the final day of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. The friendship experts I interviewed for this challenge all mentioned, in one form or another, how important vulnerability is to forming close connections. If you want big, deep platonic love in your life, you must be willing to…
This is Day 4 of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. If you’re like me, you have a staggering number of photos saved to your phone. Does that speak to an unhealthy tendency to obsessively document even the most mundane moments? Perhaps. But today’s objective is to put your photo…
This is Day 2 of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. We’ve all got them: work friends, college buddies, playground dads. Whatever you call them, they’re the discrete groups of friends from different facets of our lives. Even our “weak ties” seem to exist only in certain settings, like the…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When Amanda Montei began reporting an article last year about married couples who had little to no sex, she didn’t know how forthcoming people would be about their sex lives. But to her surprise, many…
Bill Belichick’s offseason job search ended in pitiful fashion last week. For unknown reasons, a bevy of general managers vying to keep their jobs in a highly competitive industry opted to hitch their wagons to young, unproven coaches they’ve had prior relationships with rather than a eight-time Super Bowl champion. The Commanders hiring Dan Quinn…
