Lauren Wilde

“But even if your mate seems oblivious, he may be detecting your wrath on a subconscious level. A University of Southern California study that observed married couples over several days found that if a mother was stressed, the father’s levels of the stress hormone cortisol would also rise—that, in effect, families “sync up” stress levels.... See more

“Darby Saxbe, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California, explains to me that couples often fall into a pattern of demand and retreat—most often, the woman demands and the man retreats. This dynamic has arisen, she says, because men have less to gain by changing their behavior, while women are more likely to want to alter the... See more

If you experience pregnancy or infant loss, you may feel like you’re the only one who is going through what you’re going through. But about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage before the 20th week. In 2022, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, a 3% increase from 2021. You are not... See more