All posts tagged "relationships"

Relationships 6 hours ago

5 Reasons You Need to Get Rid of All Your Negative Friends

Negativity will spoil the relationship between friends in such a way that they will not want to be around, talk to, or even engage with one...
Life Advice and Skills 1 week ago

5 Surprising Ways Trauma is Affecting You

If you have experienced trauma as a child, you might wonder how it affects your life today. Many of the things you think and feel are...
Relationships 3 months ago

5 Tips for Knowing When to Stop Trusting Someone

We’ve all had it happen to us at one point in our lives. Someone we care about has broken our trust or deceived us. It doesn’t...
Relationships 4 months ago

What To Do When It Feels Like Your Relationship Is Falling Apart

If you feel as if your relationship is tearing at the seams, here's the best course of action to take...
Relationships 4 months ago

Missing Mom? Show Her You Love Her With These Unique Mother’s Day Gifts!

There are many different kinds of moms: helicopter mom, the crunchy mom, zen mommy, and the free-range mom, to name a few. No matter what type...
Relationships 5 months ago

How To Avoid The 4 Common Misunderstandings that Will Ruin Any Relationship

Miscommunication in relationships usually result in misunderstandings and arguments. Learn how to avoid them with the tips below. In order to keep misunderstandings to a minimum,...
Relationships 5 months ago

7 Signs of Narcissistic Abuse From Your Partner

The signs of abuse are something everyone needs to know. Keep reading so you can inform yourself on the dangers of narcissistic abuse so you can...
Relationships 7 months ago

How to Appreciate Your Partner More And Not Take Them for Granted

Are you taking your partner for granted? Below are a few signs you need to appreciate your partner more. Life has a way of getting busy,...
Relationships 1 year ago

7 Signs You Are Truly a Hopeless Romantic

Wondering if you're a hopeless romantic at heart? We have 7 telltale signs...
Relationships 1 year ago

How Being Defensive Almost Killed My Relationship

Discover how being defensive almost ruined my relationship and learn how to manage your defensiveness. My boyfriend went silent and a chill set in between us....
Relationships 1 year ago

7 Signs That Someone is Good for Your Mental Health

If someone in your circle is mentally healthy, there’s an excellent chance that being around him or her will benefit your mental health as well. It...
Relationships 1 year ago

Subtle Signs Your Marriage Might Be in Trouble….and What to Do about It

We all know the big flashing red signs, that our marriage is headed down a bad path and for divorce. But do we know the more...
Relationships 1 year ago

How To Keep Your Relationship As Awesome As Day 1

Relationships are a very tricky thing. As part of our human nature, we are curious about discovering new things, especially if the heart is involved. The...
Relationships 1 year ago

10 Ways to Put a Fresh Spark Back in Your Relationship

It happens to people all the time. In fact, 6 out of 10 couples will tell you they’ve fallen into a rut at some point in...
Relationships 1 year ago

Constructive Criticism or Destructive Hating? How to distinguish between the two

“A hater is just a fan in denial.” If you have haters, you have a secret fan club. It seems like everyone has “haters” these days....
Relationships 1 year ago

The 7 Commandments of Long Distance Relationships

My name is Cornell Thomas. I’m a speaker, author, and – most importantly – a survivor of the often dreaded long distance relationship. Now before you...
Relationships 1 year ago

10 Romantic Things You Can Do To Make Your Partner Feel Special

In the beginning of your relationship, wowing each other was fairly easy. Your every desire was to win the heart of that special guy or gal....
Relationships 1 year ago

5 Signs You Should Break Up Even When It’s Hard To Do

5 Signs You Should Break Up Even When It’s Hard To Do Love is such an intricate, complicated, litany feature of our lives these days. We...
Relationships 1 year ago

6 Ways To Keep a Healthy Intimate Relationship

Wondering how to keep a relationship healthy? With the right work, you can keep good, healthy intimate connections for the long haul. Here’s how. How To Keep...
Relationships 1 year ago

10 Things Happy Couples Do Differently

When I envision my successful life, I will typically take my mind to a special event that will take place when I am nearly 75 years...
Relationships 1 year ago

How To Get Over Infidelity In 7 Steps

Infidelity can probably be ranked in the top 10 fears of most people. The notion of loyalty is one that we as human beings, do not...
Relationships 1 year ago

7 Things About Love That No One Tells You

There are many uncomfortable truths about life and live that we could talk about, but we will limit it to 7 here, as that is probably...
Relationships 1 year ago

Men vs. Women: Communication Styles Explained

Stemming back to the days of ‘Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus’, we have understood that there are some fundamental differences in how men...
Relationships 1 year ago

Celebrating Valentine’s Day as a Divorced Mom

Valentine’s Day, you either love it or hate it and when you’re facing your first Valentine’s Day as a divorced mother, it may be a day...
Relationships 1 year ago

Why you should not accept the “too busy” excuse from your partner

Is your partner always ‘too busy’? “If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and...
Relationships 1 year ago

20 Simple but creative ways to cheer someone up

Discover some simple but amazing ways to cheer someone up. Life always has its ups and downs. Nevertheless, it’s not easy seeing someone we care about wear...
Relationships 2 years ago

Why Your Next Relationship Probably Won’t Work and What to Do About It

Our latest article on why relationships fail and what to do about it. People who settle for mediocre lives also settle for mediocre relationships. Why relationships...
Relationships 2 years ago

3 Myths about sex that could ruin your sex life

Let’s be real – no man wants to admit that he had it all wrong about sex. Hell, no man wants to admit he was even...
Relationships 2 years ago

Perfect Wedding Gift Ideas for Every Type of Couple

Not sure what to give the couple that seems to have everything? Sometimes, even though we want to be unique and thoughtful, we’re stuck for appropriate...
Relationships 2 years ago

4 Secrets Men Keep from Women That Can Affect a Relationship

Do you ever feel like your partner is not telling you what he’s really thinking or feeling? There may be some validity to your concern. Let’s...
Relationships 2 years ago

5 Tips to build a healthy and positive social circle

How’s your social life? Do you enjoy the people you hang out with? Are they supportive and encouraging? Or are they a bit like “Debbie downers”?...
Relationships 2 years ago

How to communicate with anyone using the Color Code

There is no denying that communication is tricky. In our lives, we are forced to communicate with teachers, students, co-workers, parents, kids, spouses, significant others, friends,...
Relationships 2 years ago

Why Collaborative Divorce is a Route Worth Considering

When people think of divorce, they may become overwhelmed with anxiety, fear the bickering and ill will, as well as dread the lawyers who will drag...
Relationships 2 years ago

Couples Therapy to Negotiate the End of Your Relationship? Absolutely!

While most people consider couples therapy as a tool to work on issues in the relationship (to hopefully fix them and move forward), that’s not its...
Relationships 3 years ago

6 Tips for a Happy Marriage That Lasts More Than 20 Years

How do you stay married – happily – for 20 years? I’ve been thinking on that recently, as my husband Ben and I celebrated our 20th...
Relationships 3 years ago

Why Failed Relationships Do NOT Make You a Failure

Often, patients speak to me about the fact that they feel like a failure because a relationship failed. They take the fact that a break-up, or...
Relationships 3 years ago

7 Secrets To Staying Healthy When In a Relationship

Nurturing your emotional health is essential to your happiness and partner. If you’re struggling to stay emotionally healthy when in love, don’t worry – you’re not...
Relationships 3 years ago

5 Ways to Be There for a Co-Worker in Crisis

Most of us know at least one person at this very moment facing cancer, loss of a loved one, illness, divorce or other personal struggle. When...
Relationships 3 years ago

3 Steps to Intimacy and the Skills That Help You Take Them

Intimacy is one of the keys to a good relationship. We all strive for it, but we often don’t know how to get it or maintain...
Relationships 3 years ago

10 Qualities Women Look for In a Man That Will Make Them Want To Stay

Ultimately, what women want is to stay. And men want them to stay. So, why are there so many breakups, even in relationships that appear blessed...
Relationships 3 years ago

10 Things to Expect Before Dating Independent Women

By the time you meet an independent woman, she has already learned the value of self-reliance and hard work – and this can’t help but transcend...
Relationships 3 years ago

5 Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Intimate Relationship

Issues with intimacy are one of the top issues that couples report when they enter couples therapy. They have lost the “spark”. They have stopped being...
Relationships 3 years ago

10 Qualities Guys Look for in a Woman that Will Make Them Want to Stay

More than 40 percent of adult population in America is single, and it is not much different with other countries either. You can panic about this,...
Relationships 3 years ago

How To Fall In Love With Your Partner Over and Over Again

We’ve seen it all around us – good love that’s gone bad. Couples laying in bed on their phones with nothing to say until “good night,...
Relationships 3 years ago

How Do You know If You Have Met Your Soulmate and What Comes Next?

Taking the leap into a new relationship can leave you feeling terrified and overwhelmed. On the other hand, you may be experiencing an intimacy and openness...
Relationships 3 years ago

6 Fixes to Keep Your “Family Time” Resolution

For most people, “spending more time with family” is one of the first things on the New Year’s resolution list – and is one of the...
Relationships 3 years ago

10 Reasons Why an Independent Woman Struggles with Falling In Love

Hey! My name is Ashley Valencia, I was and still am a very independent woman. I got married in December of 2016. I am 30 years...
Relationships 3 years ago

5 Misunderstandings That Will Cause Problems In Your Closest Relationships

Misunderstandings are the root of conflict in many relationships. It can range from minor misunderstandings (“I thought you said left!”) to toxic misunderstandings (“Were you flirting...
Relationships 3 years ago

5 Game Changers That Will Ruin Any Relationship

Relationships are the sources of some of our most blissful, fulfilling, and pleasurable experiences when they are working. But when they are not, they can be...
Relationships 3 years ago

7 Benefits of Cuddling That Could Save Your Relationship

Often in life, the solution is in the simplest of things we do. Our relationship is no different. You may have tried hard to improve it,...
Relationships 3 years ago

6 Hard Facts about Successful Relationships

Successful relationships take time and effort. In order for it to really work for the long haul, couples need to remember a few things, such as...
Relationships 3 years ago

10 Brutal Truths for a Love that Lasts

In a time when divorce seems like the common solution to any problem, and 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, there remains 50 percent of...
Relationships 3 years ago

7 Tips to Make a Long-Distance Relationship Work

A long-distance relationship can be the biggest challenge any relationship can face. With the distance and being so far from your significant other, it can tear...
Relationships 3 years ago

25 Fun Date Ideas that Won’t Leave You Broke

There is nothing like spending time with your significant other. Whether you’ve been together for 20 years or only two months, you probably know that going...
Relationships 4 years ago

10 Reasons To Get Married In Your 30s, NOT Your 20s

First off, you should know that I got married in both my 20s and 30s. That’s why I want to warn every young woman I see...
Relationships 4 years ago

11 Signs You’re in an Abusive Relationship

It’s easy to recognize an abusive relationship watching Lifetime – but it’s damn near impossible to see when it’s with the person you love. Abuse can manifest in many...
Relationships 4 years ago

20 To Dos for Lasting Love That You Can Do Today

When I was 20 I met my now ex-husband. I’m now 45 and divorced one year. We were together a total of 24 years before divorcing. We...
Relationships 4 years ago

Why Love Will Always Be An Art

Is Love a science or an art? To me, Love will always be more art than science. Why? Because science is often defined by rules while art...
Relationships 4 years ago

Who is wrong, you or your friends?

We live in a deeply divided nation and this often means that we end up disagreeing with sensible people that simply think different than us. Too...
Relationships 4 years ago

7 signs you have an amazing family

I was just seventeen years old. Christmas morning had so far been a bummer. While I had many packages under the tree they were all clothing...
Relationships 4 years ago

10 Things to Avoid For Better Relationships

During my many years of working with couples, and writing about them each week for major media outlets, I have been able to comfortably come up...
Relationships 4 years ago

How to have a healthy relationship

People are often under the misconception that relationships aren’t work. The best relationships are consistently working at being healthy, supportive, and fair to one another. The...
Relationships 4 years ago

The 3 Essential Things that Every Relationship Should Have

Since February is Valentine’s month, now is a good time to focus on the meaning of your relationships. When you reflect on all your relationships, try...
Relationships 4 years ago

7 Important but Uncomfortable Truths about Life and Love

7 Important but Uncomfortable Truths about Life and Love 1. Change Change is important to every living thing in that it allows evolution to constantly make...
Relationships 4 years ago

Facial Expressions: What Can You Learn About a Person Just By Looking at the Face?

This is a topic that is of particular interest to me, including the knowledge and skills that go along with learning it well. As a Psychologist,...
Relationships 4 years ago

How To Flirt 101: Where to Start

Flirting. It’s one of those words that typically strikes a pleasing chord with most people. Flirting is a playful way someone lets you know they’re interested...
Relationships 4 years ago

The Art of Flirting: 12 Ways To Flirt Better Starting Today

As a Dating and Relationship coach I am asked this question a thousand times or more a year. I call it an Art because some people...
Relationships 4 years ago

How Meeting A Prince Changed My Life (It’s not what you think…)

Just a few years ago, I was traveling from the U.S. to Spain to meet my mother and step-father for a much needed vacation. At that...
Relationships 4 years ago

3 Ways To Improve Your Relationships

I don’t have friends, I got family – Dom Toretto, Furious 7 In today’s world, all it takes to start a relationship is a few button...
Relationships 4 years ago

The 9 Biggest Benefits of Being In a Relationship

The trend these days might be to stay single and try to play the field, but is it really that fulfilling? While being single might have...
Relationships 4 years ago

Be The Person You Want To Meet

Be The Person You Want To Meet It’s easy to make a list of what you want in a perfect mate — in fact, I think...
Relationships 4 years ago

8 Surefire Ways To Destroy Any Relationship

Is what you’re doing ruining your relationships? Why would you want to read a list of actions to take to kill your relationship? As a...
Relationships 5 years ago

Is Your Relationship A Success?

Measuring Success In Our Relationships The best success is not public or measured in accolades because, quite frankly, that is common. And common success is less...

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5 Reasons You Need to Get Rid of All Your Negative Friends

5 Surprising Ways Trauma is Affecting You

5 Tips for Knowing When to Stop Trusting Someone

What To Do When It Feels Like Your Relationship Is Falling Apart

Missing Mom? Show Her You Love Her With These Unique Mother’s Day Gifts!

How To Avoid The 4 Common Misunderstandings that Will Ruin Any Relationship

7 Signs of Narcissistic Abuse From Your Partner

How to Appreciate Your Partner More And Not Take Them for Granted

7 Signs You Are Truly a Hopeless Romantic

How Being Defensive Almost Killed My Relationship

7 Signs That Someone is Good for Your Mental Health

Subtle Signs Your Marriage Might Be in Trouble….and What to Do about It

How To Keep Your Relationship As Awesome As Day 1

10 Ways to Put a Fresh Spark Back in Your Relationship

Constructive Criticism or Destructive Hating? How to distinguish between the two

The 7 Commandments of Long Distance Relationships

10 Romantic Things You Can Do To Make Your Partner Feel Special

5 Signs You Should Break Up Even When It’s Hard To Do

6 Ways To Keep a Healthy Intimate Relationship

10 Things Happy Couples Do Differently

How To Get Over Infidelity In 7 Steps

7 Things About Love That No One Tells You

Men vs. Women: Communication Styles Explained

Celebrating Valentine’s Day as a Divorced Mom

Why you should not accept the “too busy” excuse from your partner

20 Simple but creative ways to cheer someone up

Why Your Next Relationship Probably Won’t Work and What to Do About It

3 Myths about sex that could ruin your sex life

Perfect Wedding Gift Ideas for Every Type of Couple

4 Secrets Men Keep from Women That Can Affect a Relationship

5 Tips to build a healthy and positive social circle

How to communicate with anyone using the Color Code

Why Collaborative Divorce is a Route Worth Considering

Couples Therapy to Negotiate the End of Your Relationship? Absolutely!

6 Tips for a Happy Marriage That Lasts More Than 20 Years

Why Failed Relationships Do NOT Make You a Failure

7 Secrets To Staying Healthy When In a Relationship

5 Ways to Be There for a Co-Worker in Crisis

3 Steps to Intimacy and the Skills That Help You Take Them

10 Qualities Women Look for In a Man That Will Make Them Want To Stay

10 Things to Expect Before Dating Independent Women

5 Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Intimate Relationship

10 Qualities Guys Look for in a Woman that Will Make Them Want to Stay

How To Fall In Love With Your Partner Over and Over Again

How Do You know If You Have Met Your Soulmate and What Comes Next?

6 Fixes to Keep Your “Family Time” Resolution

10 Reasons Why an Independent Woman Struggles with Falling In Love

5 Misunderstandings That Will Cause Problems In Your Closest Relationships

5 Game Changers That Will Ruin Any Relationship

7 Benefits of Cuddling That Could Save Your Relationship

6 Hard Facts about Successful Relationships

10 Brutal Truths for a Love that Lasts

7 Tips to Make a Long-Distance Relationship Work

25 Fun Date Ideas that Won’t Leave You Broke

10 Reasons To Get Married In Your 30s, NOT Your 20s

11 Signs You’re in an Abusive Relationship

20 To Dos for Lasting Love That You Can Do Today

Why Love Will Always Be An Art

Who is wrong, you or your friends?

7 signs you have an amazing family

10 Things to Avoid For Better Relationships

How to have a healthy relationship

The 3 Essential Things that Every Relationship Should Have

7 Important but Uncomfortable Truths about Life and Love

Facial Expressions: What Can You Learn About a Person Just By Looking at the Face?

How To Flirt 101: Where to Start

The Art of Flirting: 12 Ways To Flirt Better Starting Today

How Meeting A Prince Changed My Life (It’s not what you think…)

3 Ways To Improve Your Relationships

The 9 Biggest Benefits of Being In a Relationship

Be The Person You Want To Meet

8 Surefire Ways To Destroy Any Relationship

Is Your Relationship A Success?