About r/relationships
In its own words:
/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.
Community guide
r/relationships (#261, about 3.8 million) helps with specific personal relationship advice between redditors. Rules require required post elements, acceptable question types, ban listed bad questions and unacceptable behaviour, and spell out instant-ban and good-behaviour norms. Text (~218.4 ppd).
Specific interpersonal advice
Personal, concrete relationship situations fit; vague venting without an ask may not.
Required elements and question types
Meet required post elements; stay inside acceptable question types; avoid the bad-question list.
Practical pointers
Nearly all samples are text; follow instant-ban lines on-sub.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jul 9, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 2,948 subscribers (+0.08%). It sits just behind r/15minutefood (#260) and ahead of r/Marvel (#262) in our ranking.
What sets r/relationships apart
r/relationships is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 57.8 new posts a day per million members, more than 95% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.58% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 88% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/relationships climbed from 3,754,814 to 3,776,472 subscribers (+21.7K, +0.58%). That is about 492 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/relationships talks about
We read the titles of 697 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “boyfriend”, “relationship”, “girlfriend”, “partner” and “friend”. Other frequent themes are feel, advice, love, 21f, 23f and 18f. Recurring phrases include “boyfriend 24m”, “relationship advice”, “boyfriend 25m” and “girlfriend 21f”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Activity and best time to post
r/relationships gets about 220 new posts a day. The public archive holds 3,000,777 posts and 31,524,856 comments in total, about 10.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (273 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (193). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/relationships
The moderators of r/relationships list 6 rules. In short:
- Required element
- Acceptable Question types
- Not from list of bad questions
- Unacceptable behaviour & content
- Instant bans
- Good behaviour
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/relationships and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/relationships?
r/relationships has 3,776,472 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #261 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 21,658 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/relationships created?
r/relationships was created on Jul 9, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 23, 2008.
Is r/relationships still active?
Yes. r/relationships gets about 220 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 3,000,777 posts and 31,524,856 comments. In a sample of 697 recent posts we counted 620 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/relationships?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/relationships?
The community describes itself as: “/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 relations…” Recent post titles often mention boyfriend, relationship, girlfriend, partner and friend. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/relationships SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/relationships as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/relationships?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/relationships accepts text posts only. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “Required element”; “Acceptable Question types”; “Not from list of bad questions”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/relationships?
Communities with similar topics include r/relationship_advice (15.9M), r/dating_advice (4.9M), r/AITAH (7.6M), r/socialskills (6.4M) and r/RelationshipMemes (3.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/relationships.