Vicki Larson

Vicki Larson is a longtime award-winning journalist, author of LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work (Cleis Press, July 2024), author of Not Too Old for That: How Women Are Changing the Story of Aging (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022), and coauthor of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists, and Rebels (Seal Press, 2014), named a Best Book of 2014 by PopSugar.

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How Does Menopause Affect Your Mental Health?

By Vicki Larson | May 13, 2025

Women and health professionals need to be more aware of how this life stage can affect mood, anxiety, depression, and more.

Is Climate Change Hurting Our Relationships?

By Vicki Larson | March 5, 2025

Research finds that the stress of natural disasters presents challenges and opportunities for romantic relationships.

Can You Lie-Proof Your Relationship?

By Vicki Larson | October 23, 2024

Researchers and psychologists weigh in on why we deceive our romantic partners and how to be more honest and authentic.

How Men and Women Can Be Friends (Without Sex Getting in the Way)

By Vicki Larson | July 3, 2024

Of course heterosexual men and woman can be friends—if they have incentives to manage emotional and sexual attraction.

When Is Divorce Good for Women?

By Vicki Larson | April 22, 2024

Recent research and memoirs have a message: Ending bad marriages can dramatically improve women’s mental and even physical health.

Should You Date Across Big Age Differences?

By Vicki Larson | March 18, 2024

Vicki Larson shares how two age-gap affairs changed her life—and the science behind relationships between much older and younger people.

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