← All communities
Reddit community

r/relationship_adviceNSFW

Relationship Advice. Need help with your relationship? Whether it's romance, friendship, family, co-workers, or basic human interaction: we're here to help! Founded 2009 · 15.9M members · text posts only

15.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.8K upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
15.9Mmembers
4.8Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
2.3Kposts we track

Open r/relationship_advice on Reddit ↗

What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 46%
Question 54% Text 46%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What to do about my girlfriend (f33) getting mad about me (m37) taking a shower when I get home?

↑ 4.8K 💬 1.9K question 2026

Bf's [M 42] grumpiness ruined our date... AGAIN. I [F 33] have reached the point where I can't accept this anymore.

↑ 3.5K 💬 488 text 2026

Found out my husband (32M) is upset that I (27F) haven’t bounced back “as fast” as he wants. What am I supposed to do?

↑ 3.4K 💬 1K question 2026

My husband (34M) of 12 years says his preferences in how a woman looks changed. I am (34F).

↑ 2.9K 💬 1.1K text 2026

My boyfriend (33M) is obsessed with me (30F) and I'm tired of being stuck in the house, what can I do?

↑ 2K 💬 415 question 2026

I (44F) need help trying to find the woman who left her night gown at her boyfriend’s (44M) bed this week.

↑ 2K 💬 278 text 2026

My (23M) brother (26M) has resented me for years over a memorial gift. Can I fix our relationship?

↑ 1.7K 💬 203 question 2026

My relationship with my sister (27F) changed after she slept with a guy I (26F) went on a date with. Now several years later she has told me I should…

↑ 1.5K 💬 662 question 2026

I (19m) want to leave my gender neutral partner (18m/f) for someone more feminine

↑ 1.5K 💬 286 text 2026

My (43m) wife (40f) has had too much cosmetic surgery. I couldn’t have sex with her so we opened the marriage for her. A year later she wants to clos…

↑ 1.4K 💬 690 question 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/relationship_advice, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/relationship_advice?
r/relationship_advice ("Relationship Advice") describes itself this way: Need help with your relationship? Whether it's romance, friendship, family, co-workers, or basic human interaction: we're here to help. It was founded in 2009 and has 15.9M members.
How many members does r/relationship_advice have?
r/relationship_advice has about 15.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 4.8K upvotes, which is 0 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/relationship_advice?
"What to do about my girlfriend (f33) getting mad about me (m37) taking a shower when I get home?" reached 4.8K upvotes and 1.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/relationship_advice.
What subreddits are similar to r/relationship_advice?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PublicFreakout, r/SipsTea, r/IdiotsInCars, r/Wellthatsucks, r/dankmemes, r/BikiniBottomTwitter.
What kind of posts do best on r/relationship_advice?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are question posts and 46% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/relationship_advice?
Across 2.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (613 avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (548 avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (287 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/relationship_advice?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/relationship_advice has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1.2K posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/relationship_advice, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.