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Family, kids and friends

Parents, kids, relatives and friendship.

21 stories
PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 5 min

“When you have kids, sex is rare and spontaneous”

5 min read

Stories about sex after having children

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

Sex after a baby: a modern dad's story

3 min read

Getting to know each other again and learning to enjoy yourselves in new circumstances, as the new you.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 4 min

Why do people argue more during the holidays?

4 min read

Or how to spend New Year with your family and survive

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 1 min

Family is...

1 min read

Family means something different to everyone, and yet everyone understands it.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 2 min

Family means something different to everyone

2 min read

A family is a single organism, whatever each individual story looks like. Together with a psychologist, we look at what a family is and the mechanisms at work inside it.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

Far away, still close

3 min read

Closeness at a distance: how to stay friends when your friends have scattered all over, explained by a psychologist.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 2 min

Meeting the parents

2 min read

A psychotherapist on introducing your partner to your family, and what to do if the first meeting goes badly.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 2 min

My friends are in an unhealthy relationship. What should I do?

2 min read

Sometimes we witness something we believe is wrong, and sometimes that something is a friend's relationship. A psychotherapist explains when to step in and how.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 1 min

Relationships and kids

1 min read

A. talks about how to combine kids and a personal life. This is the second part.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

(Don't) want kids: how to communicate when your positions are sharply opposed

3 min read

"A partnership is a partnership precisely so that you can sit down and sort things out, talk, figure something out for yourself." A childfree woman on what to do when one partner wants children and the other doesn't.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

Childfree with love for children

3 min read

Another question from our game that has no right answer. But there are your stories.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 4 min

Parenting after divorce: trauma, compromise and trust

4 min read

We asked a psychologist and sex therapist a few questions about parenting after divorce, and gathered psychological materials you can lean on to get through a difficult period.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 6 min

I have a dog and I'm expecting a baby: what should I do?

6 min read

We asked our favourite experts at a dog school to explain how to prepare a dog for big changes.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 2 min

Me, him and his mom

2 min read

That feeling when there are three of you in a relationship, not two. A clinical psychologist on the "his mom" dynamic.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

Saving New Year from drama

3 min read

Thinking about our differences and similarities is a favorite Purpur pastime. Together with a psychologist and psychodrama therapist, we're saving New Year from drama.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 1 min

Everyone around me is having kids, but I'm not

1 min read

Worried about losing touch with friends who are becoming parents? A psychologist and psychodrama therapist helps calm the anxiety.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 3 min

I feel like my friend and I are drifting apart

3 min read

How can you understand why it's happening?

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 2 min

Crises in friendship

2 min read

Crises are a natural part of any relationship, friendship included. Here is how to get through them and what they can give us.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 4 min

You and your parents

4 min read

Your relationship and roles, and what to do if you want to change them

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 1 min

What I want to ask my parents

1 min read

(Not so) simple questions for the people closest to us, who can sometimes be the hardest people for us.

PurpurMagFamily, kids and friends · 4 min

"So when are the kids coming?" and other tactless questions

4 min read

Whether, when and how you have children is your business alone. A psychologist explains how to answer tactless questions about kids and what to do when they hurt.