Changes in society and culture have had significant impacts on our relationships and views on marriage. A hundred years ago, marriage was for security, a family, or even as a result of family pressure ...

Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton explains the complexities of love and relationships, and what dating apps get wrong in finding the ideal partner. Psychologist Tracy Dennis Tiwary says anxiety ...

This sophisticated gazebo of a book is the latest dispatch from the Swiss-born, London-based author of the influential handbook How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (1997). Promising to teach ...

One of the most shared articles on the New York Times Web site in 2016 was " Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person", by Alain de Botton. The message of the article, and de Botton’s book " The Course of ...

“Few of us are remotely normal sexually,” de Botton (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work) writes in this accessible philosophical meditation. But though “[w]e are universally deviant,” the author opines ...