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Should You Be Managing Your Expectations in a Happy Relationship?

Falling in love is the most beautiful experience. You have a spring in your step, a song on your lips, and butterflies in your stomach. However, staying in love may be quite a different feeling as emotions gradually get altered and you starting to understand that it's time to manage your expectations a bit better. But how?... Read More...

How to Heal a Relationship When the Hurt Runs Deep

Aimee Teesdale

“Just get over it already!” “The past is gone!” “Move on!” All the well-wishers might offer you their best advice, but their words hurt. How so? Because the past still haunts you every moment of each day. Are new beginnings even possible?! Is healing could be real when the hurt runs deep? Can we confidently release the pain from the past once and for all and embrace the future? How do we find the strength to “press on”?... Read More...

How to Make Your Relationship Work, No Matter What

Stella Ryne

We all strive to be that elderly couple holding hands on the bench, but not all of us are willing to put in the work. Far too many people flee as soon as the going gets tough. The problem is that they just flee to the next dysfunctional relationship which ends up following the same unhealthy patterns as their last one. It’s time to realize that perfection exists only on the screen and that real relationships take a real effort - which doesn’t make them any less magical.... Read More...

5 Things You Can Do to Help People with Alcohol Addiction

Matthew Boyle

When an alcoholic winds up at a crisis point, sometimes that's when they finally admit they have a problem and reach out for help. If friends or family members rush in and "rescue" the person from the crisis situation, it might delay the decision to get help.... Read More...

Tricky Relationships: Why they Exist & How to Get the Best Out of Them

Shona Keachie

There are at least one or two tricky relationships in your life at any point in time that you would rather not have to deal with. These relationships most often... Read More...

5 Reasons Why Staying in a Terrible Relationship is The Wrong Thing To Do

Having Time

If you are suffering in silence being locked in a miserable, terrible relationship –– LEAVE. People change, feelings change, relationships change, and sometimes you have to face the music and know when enough is enough and walk away.... Read More...

5 Lies You Need to Stop Telling Yourself After a Breakup

Eric Ibey

Breakups are brutal. They leave you feeling alone, anxious, and helpless. You search for answers and support but all you find are useless clichés. You’re told, ... Read More...

What No One Teaches You About Love (but Should)

Cameron Connelly

We learn these priceless life and love lessons through individual experience or by watching others pass through them, sure. What’s important is that we understand those lessons so as to elevate ourselves above our hardships in love and life and not bear the same burdens twice. What has love taught you so far?... Read More...

Here’s Why You Need to Take Your Time in Finding the Love You Deserve

Having Time

I am in my 50+ and dating at this age could seem even more like a treachery minefield. Especially if you've been through your fair share of painful heartbreaks, separation, and divorce, you know it's difficult at first to be emotionally prepared for venturing out back into the 'dating safari park.' But get this, even when you ready and find someone who is also single and in the same age group, there are good chances that they are divorced and solo parenting with impossible demands on their time too. So, how do singles in their 40-50s make dating work for them? Well, we give online dating an honest try.... Read More...

Why do We Insist on Going Back to the People that Hurt Us?

Dan Elias

Why do we insist on going back to the people that hurt us over and over again? Explained.... Read More...

The Truth About “Starting a New Life”

Aimee Teesdale

Today I woke up with a renewing feeling of ‘moving on’. As I got into the shower on this fine Sunday morning in London, I said to myself, ‘it’s like I’m waking up on the first day of a new life. It’s like I’m learning to stand up on my own two feet again.’ And I breathed in the sense of excitement, nervousness, and loneliness that it evoked all at once.... Read More...

5 Things in a Relationship that are More Important Than You Think

Aimee Teesdale

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? ― Nicholas Sparks... Read More...

Why Intimacy is so Important in a Relationship?

Having Time

As a species, I believe, we are only just starting to discover one of the last truly great, genuinely human frontiers that shape who we are; the art of ‘intimacy’.... Read More...

How to Understand Your Introvert Friends Better

Jose De La Torre

Think you can spot an introvert in a crowd? Think again. Although the stereotypical introvert may be the one at the party who’s hanging out alone by the food table fiddling with an iPhone, the “social butterfly” can just as easily have an introverted personality.... Read More...

One Amazing Thing You Can Do to Heal a Broken Heart

Daphne Greer

I was forced to grow up before my time, facing my fears and tragedies head on. Diving deep into my faith was the only answer. Read about what helped me heal my broken heart and can help you too.... Read More...

Why Criticizing People Never Inspires Them to Change

Keenan Cullen

Do you ever criticize the people in your life, hoping it will get them to change themselves or their behavior? When people act in ways that turn you off, do you ever find fault with them by condemning them for what they’re “doing wrong”? And furthermore, have you ever stopped to consider the reasoning behind criticizing others, hoping it will change them? Or how do you react when someone criticizes you?... Read More...

7 Amazing Gift Ideas for Your Kids That Won’t Cost You a Dime

Daphne Greer

Take it from a mom who knows, here are 7 gift ideas for your children that don’t cost a dime.... Read More...

One Unexpected Love Lesson from a Cancelled Wedding

Lesya Li

“I am leaving you for me. Whether I am incomplete or you are incomplete is irrelevant. Relationships can only be built with two wholes. I am leavi... Read More...

10 Useful Tools to Improve Your Relationship

Jacqueline Vanderpuye

Here are10 effective tools that will help you improve and keep the fire burning in this most important of relationships.... Read More...

An Open Letter to My Mom

Katie Logue

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when ... Read More...

10 Lessons I’ve Learned to Create an Amazing Love Life

Having Time

Sometimes we all wish for a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to relationships, especially when difficulties arise from time to time. We are different, we come from all walks of life... and we all build our relationships differently. Nothing is identical. But it was my observation lately that there is one thing that probably can help us all in creating amazing love life.... Read More...