Awkward conversations are not just valuable—they're often essential for achieving important goals. Often, there is no way to have a particular conversation without it being awkward! Examples: Talking ...

Thanksgiving is the Super Bowl of awkwardness. You love these people (mostly), but the scripts are fuzzy. Do we hug? Do we talk politics? What do I say when someone hits me with the third “so, how’s ...

First things first, what is good awkward? To answer that, Pryor starts with separating the good from the bad. “Bad awkward is when we experience the emotion of awkwardness and it keeps a grip on us.

Experts shared five strategies to make things easier. By Jancee Dunn I was once trapped on a video call that was supposed to take 10 minutes but stretched to an hour. I couldn’t get a word in to wrap ...

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A user on X (formerly Twitter) recently asked a simple question that caused all kinds of runners to reflect on just how downright weird it can be to put one foot in front of the other for the first ...

Sure, the sweeping and symmetrical rooms you see on most house tours via social media or in glossy magazines are slick and ...

The fantasy of shower sex (hot and steamy) typically doesn't live up to its reality (damp and slippery, and maybe even a little dangerous). Like sex on the beach, shower sex sounds sexy in theory but ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...