r/relationships

3M archived posts · Jul 2008 – Sep 2026

Relationships

r/relationships

/r/Relationships is a community built around helping people and the goal of providing a platform for interpersonal relationship advice between redditors. We seek posts from users who have specific and personal relationship quandaries that other redditors can help them try to solve.

Created Jul 9, 2008

3.6MMembers (last snapshot)

3MArchived posts

About Us FAQ

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This sub is for requests for advice about your relationship Any other posts including general questions, opinion-gathering/refereeing questions or venting posts may be removed or referred elsewhere

This sub is about helping people in need - If you are not providing such help (i.e. abuse, jokes, meta arguments, fighting with other posters, pointless tangents), your comments may be removed. Please report comments that you feel are in violation of these guidelines to keep discussions constructive.

At any time mods may remove or refer posts to other subs as we deem appropriate, and our decisions are final. The full rules for the subreddit can be found on our Wiki, please familiarize yourself with them.

Rules for posting to r/Relationships

Required elements for all submissions

Ages, genders and relationship length
Include a TL;DR! - a brief summary at the end of your post. No "See title".**
Sufficient spelling, grammar and formatting to be readable

Acceptable question types

First person posts, not on behalf of others
Specific, clearly stated questions about your situation
A desire for input, not just to vent

Unacceptable question/post types

No general questions, polling or ‘opinion gathering’.
No meta complaints (about the sub). If you are unhappy here, reddit elsewhere.
No questions directed at a single gender or group.
No politics!
No gift or activity questions.
Updates -"UPDATE" needs to be in the title. Link to the previous post, which cannot be deleted or removed. Original post more than 48 hours old. The update needs to be about the solution. One update only.

Unacceptable content and behaviour

Do not fight or feed the trolls. Use the report button instead!
No abuse and victim blaming!
Do not use uncivil, negatively gendered, ableist, sexist or bigoted language.
Avoid tangential discussions, focus on helping posters
No photos, links, emojis or videos
No AI-Generated advice
Do not post or request personal information that can be used to trace you
Do not mention upvotes or downvotes. We do not allow vote manipulation.
Do not use the sub to push your personal agenda
Do not offer professional opinions

Instant bans

Advocating, suggesting or justifying violence. Even as a joke.
Crossposting content from here to another sub, including your own page
Do not repost removed material
Egregious bigotry and abusiveness

Good behaviour

Be respectful to posters and other commenters
Focus on helping the OP
Use your experience to form advice but put yourself in the place of others as well
Thank people for good advice
If you are tempted to make an angry reply, use the report button instead

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