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Seven routes that actually put you in conversation with people abroad — from language exchange to your own city's diaspora — and why travel is the least useful advice.
Ten things you can observe rather than feel, plus the quieter signals that it isn't working. A couple of the good signs look, at first glance, like bad ones.
No, and dating's folk timelines are younger and shakier than they look. What matters is not the month on the calendar but whether you both agreed to the pace.
Jealousy is a feeling, and feelings are allowed. What you do with it decides everything — including the point where it stops being jealousy and becomes control.
The strongest evidence that someone is falling for you tends to look unromantic: remembered logistics, rearranged plans, and a calendar that quietly assumes you are in it.
Interfaith and faith/no-faith couples, conversion pressure, which tradition the children get, and what you owe each other if a family never comes round.