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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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.

What We Can All Learn From Polyamorous Parents

By Vicki Larson | February 28, 2024

Experts on polyamory share insights around communication, community, and support that can be helpful to all parents.

Why Do Some Couples Choose to Live Apart?

By Vicki Larson | December 18, 2023

Social scientists say that more couples are staying together but living in separate homes, for some good reasons.