Gold Digging and Psychopathy: What This New Study Reveals About Modern Dating (opens in new tab)

There’s a version of love people like to believe in—the one where attraction is mysterious, connection is mutual, and everything unfolds with a kind of emotional symmetry. And then there’s the version researchers keep quietly documenting. In my work with couples, I’ve seen this second version far more often than anyone would like to admit: relationships that don’t fall apart because of confusion, but because of a difference in what each person is actually optimizing for. There’s a particular ...