For the better of three decades, the media has tackled the problem of failing relationships and how they can be saved. The great self-help giants—John Gottman, Harville Hendricks, David Scharch, and M ...

Early in my career I took a job reporting to someone who had a reputation for being difficult. I’ll call her Elise. Plenty of people warned me that she would be hard to work with, but I thought I ...