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Love & Relationships

In love with love? Same. In fact, you might say we’ve been the experts in it since 1965. Consider Cosmo your go-to resource for all matters of the modern heart, from single life to situationships, butterflies to breakups, and everything in between.

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What Is Decentering Men?

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Have We Lost the Plot on “Intentional Dating?”

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Cosmo Editors’ Most Unhinged “Hear Me Out” Crushes

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Single at a Wedding? Read This First

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Summer Is for the Single Girls

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More and More Single-by-Choice Women Are Electing to Stay Unpartnered

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I Can’t Stop Fantasizing About Being Single

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Am I Too Happy Being Single?

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12 Women Reveal Their "Secret Single Behaviors"

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Don't Bring a Date to a Wedding (It’s More Fun!)

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Dating Trend Deep Dives

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What Is Alpine Divorce?

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Your Frontal Lobe Is Coming For Your Relationship

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Credit Scores Have Taken Over Dating Apps

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Is Heteroflexibility Back?

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In love with love?

Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett unpacks dating trends in her new love newsletter.

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Pisces and a Gemini?

...But I think we might go really nice together!

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Gemini Men Are Facing a Pop Star Reckoning

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As a Pisces, I ,Too, Would Drop Dead for a Gemini

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What You Need to Know About Dating a Gemini Woman

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Thinking About Dating a Pisces? Let’s Talk

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The Most Pressing Info About Dating a Pisces Man

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Your Summer Situationship Survival Guide

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Beware the Situationswitch

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Here’s How to Tell If You’re in a Situationship

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Helpful Texts to Un-Confuse Your Situationship

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Why Is a Three-Month Situationship So Ubiquitous?

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AI Has Come for Your Love Life

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Is AI Ruining Relationships?

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How AI Is Guiding Gen Z Divorces

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Is Everyone Sexting With AI?

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So Apparently, Your AI Girlfriend Can Dump You

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Dating Diaries

Read the latest from Cosmo columnist Ella Snyder

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What It Took to Finally Find Pleasure After Gender-Affirming Surgery

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I Thought I Was Asexual—Turns Out, I Was Just Having Bad Sex

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Dating While Trans Means Coming Out Never Ends

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What My First T4T Relationship Taught Me About Love

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My Agoraphobic Anxiety Almost Kept Me From Dating

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Are You Emotionally Unavailable?

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Why I’d Rather Be Broken Up With Over Text

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Should Your Date Send an Uber for You, Y/N???

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24 Signs You’re Falling in Love

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38 Compliments for Men That He’ll Love

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What Former Fuckboys Really Think About Their Past

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Heart Emoji Meanings

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I’m Done Optimizing My Love Life

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Let's Talk About the Pre-Date "Google Test"

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Are We Using TikTok Love Advice or Weaponizing It?

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Are We All Just Relation-shopping on Dating Apps?

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Let’s Talk About Digital Jealousy