John Hernandez

“How to Build a Life” is a column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series…
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If you are an American parent, you are mired in contradiction wherever you look: Children are too coddled, a strident Facebook post might…
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At the small elementary school in Jouy-sous-les-Côtes, in northeastern France, Gisèle Marc knew the rumor about her: that her parents were…
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The French psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham wrote that some of us are haunted by “the gaps left within us by the secrets of others.” Growing up…
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To be a parent on the internet is to be constantly accused of false advertising. We make parenting sound “so freaking horrible,” “messy,…
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“How to Build a Life” is a column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series…
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Six years ago, when my now-husband was still just a friendly old flame from my high-school days, I sent him an Apple Music playlist of my…
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The panic set in at the same point every semester: Whenever Ximena Arriaga, a psychology professor at Purdue University, got to attachment…
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The most common number of talk-therapy sessions that people attend in their lifetime is one. That very first meeting with a mental-health…
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It started out as a fairly typical office friendship: You ate lunch together and joked around during breaks. Maybe you bonded over a shared…
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