Things You Should Never Say to Your Partner
Having a fight? “You’re overreacting” will only make it worse.
Their Cape Cod Home Isn’t Small, but Its Carbon Footprint Is
When Michael and Jennifer Monteiro bought a house on Cape Cod, they wanted more than just a vacation home near the beach in Massachusetts: They were determined to own something that reflected cutting-edge sustainability. Since selling the software company he co-founded, Buildium, in 2019, Mr. Monteiro, 51, has used his investment company, Mpactful Ventures, to…
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Behind the Scenes With Volunteer Crews at the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival
That pilot was Gregory Ashton, 61, from Meridian, Idaho, who was flying Montie the Black Sheep, a grinning member of the special shape category, which also included Yoda, a tiger, and a sunglasses-wearing saguaro cactus. Mr. Ashton put the pair to work right away, pulling out the balloon and getting it inflated, and then had…
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Flamboyant as Ever, ’70s-Style Desserts Are Making a Comeback
WHEN THE NEW York chef and restaurateur Angie Mar was developing the dessert menu for her new Manhattan restaurant, Le B — where she serves an opulent take on continental cuisine — she wasn’t interested in subtlety. “I always love excess,” says Mar, 41. “And when I think about a ’70s dinner party, I think…
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From Roommates to Friends to ‘Turbo Twins’
It was Verity Jean Louise Elks who first asked to make things official. Her relationship with Benjamin Oliver Brian Riches had moved quickly. Within weeks of moving to Los Angeles in the spring of 2019, Ms. Elks was fully integrated into her fellow Australian’s social circle. In July, the pair were having drinks at a…
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It All Started With a Bottle of Shalimar
Shortly after matching on the dating app Bumble, followed by a 90-minute “screening” phone call in June 2022, Christie Lynn Houlihan and Rahul Dev Chatterjee had their first date in Houston. Ms. Houlihan, 40 and never married, told Mr. Chatterjee, 48, who was divorced for about a year at the time, that she had recently…
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A New Journey After Two Long and Happy Marriages
“I started to slowly think about life with him,” she said, as she and Mr. Meyer took turns visiting each other, and she joined him on a family trip to Puerto Rico in December. In May, over dinner near her beach house on Long Beach Island, N.J., she told him she would say yes to…
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Game, Set and a Match for a Former Tennis Pro
When Julia Margaux Elbaba and Dr. Matthew George Nevulis matched on Bumble in early 2019, neither was in a position to make a long-distance relationship work. Dr. Nevulis lived in Charlottesville, Va., where he was completing his medical residency at the University of Virginia. Ms. Elbaba was traveling the world as a professional tennis player,…
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Were We the ‘Fat Couple’?
Dating Jason was such a relief. At 43, I had been in love only once before with a man who sat in the passenger seat of my car (when I was much thinner than I am today) and poked his finger into my splayed thigh, as if to say, “You’re going to take care of…
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Abraham Bergman, Doctor Who Sought Answers on SIDS, Dies at 91
Dr. Abraham B. Bergman, a pediatrician who was instrumental in passing a federal law to combat sudden infant death syndrome, a once misunderstood loss that caused not just parental heartbreak but guilt and blame, and who put his stamp on other enduring public health laws, died on Nov. 10 in Seattle. He was 91. The…
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