Michele Ross

Michele Ross is a freelance writer specializing in beauty, wellness and lifestyle. Her work has appeared in Coveteur, GQ, Marie Claire, Oprah Daily, POPSUGAR, Self and Well+Good, among others.

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How to Find Purpose in Midlife After Raising a Family: Strategies from Psychotherapists

For years, you’ve found meaning and identity in fulfilling your family’s needs. Therapists explain how to recalibrate your purpose.

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A kitchen setting captures a moment of unease. A woman with long red hair sits with a watchful gaze, while another looks away. A man busies himself at the sink, the scene implying tension, jealousy, or an unfolding argument.

What Happens When You're Happy for Someone—and Jealous Too: Clinical Experts’ Advice to Process and Learn

Jealousy toward someone you care about doesn’t make you bad. Here’s how two psychologists say it can guide your own choices.

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Two women sit together on a couch. One, wearing red, faces the other with a disappointed expression. The other, in black, ignores her, staring at her phone.

When to Walk Away From a One-Sided Friendship

Experts articulate when an imbalance in effort becomes problematic, with how—and whether—to give the friendship a fighting chance.

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Is It Ever OK to Date Your Friend’s Ex? Psychotherapists Weigh In

Relationship experts say this might not be totally forbidden territory, if you consider a few ground rules.

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In an office setting, a woman in a suit presides over a meeting. She leans on the table, relaxed.

Loving a Driven Person: 1 Couple’s Story, and a Therapist’s Insight

Romance and career ambition can coexist, suggests a relationship expert—if you and your partner make space for this one thing.

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A couple lies in bed together. The woman turns away, reading something on her phone.

Signs of an Emotional Affair, According to Expert Therapists

Emotional affairs usually have different traits—but similar effects—to sexual affairs, two relationship experts say.

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Two women hold each other and laugh together.

How to Reconnect with an Old Friend—and Why It’s Healthy, From an Expert Therapist

Acting on that longing for a pal from your past could be beneficial to you both.

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