Love, with intention
Does love still matter?
Wherever you are with it, love is worth doing on purpose.
What the evidence says
Close relationships are the single strongest predictor of how long, and how well, you live.
50%
higher odds of living longer for people with strong relationships, an effect that rivals quitting smoking.
Meta-analysis · 300,000 people
80 yrs
of research keep pointing to one thing above money, fame, or genes: the quality of your close relationships.
Harvard Study of Adult Development
15
cigarettes a day: the health toll researchers now put on chronic loneliness.
U.S. Surgeon General · 2023
It even splits by sex. For men, simply being in a committed relationship adds years. For women, it’s the quality of that relationship (and close friendships) that protect health and longevity most.
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Notes on love, worth the reading.
The Perfect Partner Problem
Time spent with AI companions doubled in six months. A quarter of young adults think an AI partner could replace real romance, and one in seven people in committed relationships already confides in one. The perfect partner has arrived, and perfection turns out to be the problem.
July 27, 2026
Why Dating Apps Feel Broken Right Now
Swipe fatigue is not a personal failing. Half of users rate the experience as negative, paying subscribers are walking away, and the business model itself earns more the longer you stay single. Here is what the data shows, and what a different kind of matchmaking looks like.
July 20, 2026
The Oldest Word for Sex Means "To Know"
Modern research keeps finding that safety and being deeply known are what drive desire. The oldest texts in the Western canon said the same thing in a single Hebrew word. Here is what the world's traditions quietly agree on about intimacy, and how so many of us lost the thread.
July 10, 2026