About Love Answers

Love Answers is a relationship guide for the questions people type into a search bar late at night: is my partner cheating, what counts as cheating, why do I pull away, is this a red flag, and how do we fix what is going wrong. We write for a reader who is often anxious or hurt, sometimes reading privately on a phone, and who wants a straight answer plus a next step.

At Love Answers, we are editors. We read the research, the official sources and what couples say in their own words, then turn it into plain guides, quizzes and printables. We are not therapists, lawyers or private investigators, and we say so whenever that matters to your next step.

Who Writes Love Answers

Love Answers’ editors read attachment science, Gottman Institute research, infidelity studies and General Social Survey data. We also read official sources: Military OneSource, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), the US Code and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Each guide turns that reading into an answer, the evidence behind it, and something you can do this week.

We do not publish under invented personas, and you will not find therapist credentials on this site that we do not hold. When a guide needs a licensed professional, it names the kind of professional and why.

How We Source Every Guide

Every number, study finding, legal rule and phone number on Love Answers comes from a facts ledger. Each entry in the ledger links to the original study, statute or official page, and records how far the figure can be trusted. Writers may only cite what is in the ledger, with the wording limits it sets.

Those limits shape how we write. We name the source in the sentence, such as “in General Social Survey data analyzed by the Institute for Family Studies”. We keep the population and year attached to every figure, so a 1987 newspaper-quiz sample never turns into a fact about adults today. We write “is linked to” for survey findings and keep “causes” out of them.

Some kinds of popular claims never appear here because we could not trace them to a real source:

• Failure rates for long-distance relationships. The widely shared figures have no primary study behind them.
• Claims that most marriages involve infidelity. Self-reported national survey data puts the figure far lower.
• Precise divorce-prediction accuracy figures. They came from models fit to data already collected, and critics note the models were not tested on new couples.
• Any success rate for affair recovery programs. No verified figure exists.

When a fact rests on one small study, we say “one small study found”. When a figure is perishable, such as a therapy price, we date it and link the page where you can check the current number.

What We Will Never Publish

These rules apply to every guide, quiz and printable on the site.

1. Spyware and account-hacking advice. We never advise secretly installing monitoring apps, reading another adult’s messages without consent, recording calls illegally or tracking a partner’s car. Covert interception of another adult’s communications can be a crime under the federal Wiretap Act. Our pages on finding out about cheating cover legal, consent-based steps only.
2. Diagnoses. We describe behaviors and patterns. We will not tell you that your partner is a narcissist or that you have a disorder, because only a clinician who knows you can say that.
3. Invented stories. No made-up couples, “a reader told us” anecdotes, case studies, testimonials or “we tested this app for 30 days” claims.
4. Abuse framed as a couples problem. Control, threats and violence are not something to “work on” together. Those pages say plainly that couples counseling is usually not recommended while abuse is happening, and they point to advocates.
5. Explicit sexual content. Sex and intimacy are covered in plain, non-graphic language.

Every page that touches abuse, control, threats or self-harm lists the help lines: the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788), love is respect (1-866-331-9474 or text LOVEIS to 22522), the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988), and 911 in an emergency.

How Love Answers Is Paid For

Love Answers is free to read, and the quizzes need no sign-up. The site may carry ads, and some links to products or services may be affiliate links that pay us a commission if you buy.

We refuse one category outright. Stalkerware and phone-monitoring apps are never recommended or linked here, whatever they might pay, because using them on another adult can break federal law.

The two printables on the downloads page are free. They arrive in a single email, and we do not add you to a mailing list.

How to Request a Correction

If you find an error, send it through the contact page and choose “A correction”. Include the page link, the sentence you think is wrong and the source that shows it. If the source holds up, we fix the page and change its updated date.

We are editors and not counselors, so we cannot give personal relationship advice by email. For help with your own situation, a licensed therapist is the right first call, or the Hotline if you feel unsafe.