Long-term love

Trust, experiment, intimacy: practices to help you become closer, and how to share with each other what you felt.

The small, unglamorous signs that a relationship has become the real thing.

Tactile, vulnerable, closer.

A funny and true-to-life comic about what to do when you love someone and the feeling is mutual.

Puppy leave, poop "treats" and RIP to every dead pigeon and beaver. Spoiler: we'll scare you, but not too much.

How not to fight over the dog?

A personal story about love, fears, crises and emigration

Instead of formalities, we choose the words you actually want to hear.

Together with a psychologist and psychodrama therapist, we look at what to do when you feel you're on the verge of dropping everything and leaving.

If we feel this way about a partner, does it mean love is over?

Your partner's depression and your own mixed feelings. Empathy, exhaustion, pain, guilt, helplessness, the wish to help and the wish to keep living your own life.

Or what to do if your dog makes a fuss when you have sex.

Two people in long-distance relationships on romcom stereotypes, sex after reuniting, and wanting a partner's everyday self rather than their vacation version.

What to do when the two of them get along perfectly without you? We asked a dog professional.

A dog expert explains how to prepare for the moment your partner meets your dog.

A check-up for those who have decided to put their relationship on pause

A kitty, less sex, and my things are no longer just mine.

How do you keep a relationship going "remotely"? A reader's story with a psychologist's comment

Morning is… The little things the Purpur team starts the day with.

On rain checks, and why you can give each other a "purpur check" for intimacy, sex, dates or time alone.

A psychologist explains why crises in relationships are not just normal but actually necessary.

With a psychologist, we look at the difference between calm and boredom, when to get ready for a serious conversation, and whether every couple even needs momentum in their relationship.

Purpur wedding vows for anyone who needs some inspiration.

A clinical psychologist explains why long-term relationships can turn into cohabitation, and how to move from the roommate phase into the soulmate phase.

Calming pre-wedding anxiety together with a clinical psychologist

What was this year about for the two of you as a couple? Six questions for reflecting together, from Purpur.

Separation, jealousy, being apart, touch hunger and “remembering what it's like to be alone with yourself.”

Life together is one long compatibility test, and everyday situations keep showing how well your values line up.

The three hosts of a sitcom podcast about sex take questions from the Purpur.Relationships card game: household chores, money, moving in together, death, adoption and depression.