Dating & Relationship Advice

Happiness is as much cultural as it is personal. Sometimes we let society determine how happy we are…and that’s a shame, honestly. Because some people will never be happy. Some political movements, some groups out there, seem to thrive when their followers are unhappy. And so when you’re constantly around people who are angry, or

Maybe it starts with a thought. The inclination is to watch him, to monitor him. Sure enough, he begins to act differently. Then your curiosity slowly grows into paranoia. You know he’s unhappy. You know he likes to flirt. Maybe you’ve even caught other women flirting with him. It fills you with an overwhelming feeling

The feeling of being loved “less” or that you love him much more than he loves you can be devastating. You try so hard to please him. You give of yourself and you reach out to touch his heart, so earnest, so trusting… Only to find out that love isn’t enough. Or maybe that he

It’s sad that some people today have such negative attitudes about men and fidelity. For example, some believe that all men are cheaters by nature and they’re only as faithful as their temptations. Some believe that men “trap women” into monogamy. Some people even believe that a man is weak if he never cheats on

Now here’s an interesting question someone recently asked me at a seminar. It was actually quite the debate, since we were talking about traditional male and female roles, and someone posed a thought-provoking question. A young woman said to me, “Why is it that ‘clingy women’ are such a negative stereotype?’ Why is it that

It’s safe to say that culture has changed so much over the past 50-100 years, cheating today doesn’t mean what it used to mean so many years ago. Sure, we still understand why cheating is wrong. How it hurts people and the chaos it can cause in a relationship. But today, our culture has become

This is probably the most common problem that dating coaches run into – trying to help women see that having sex is not a way to legitimize or escalate the relationship. And believe it or not, it’s never as simple as saying, “Girls stop sleeping with these guys that are just going to break your

Some stereotypes are unfortunately true. Take for instance the one about the good girl who always wears her heart on her sleeves and gets dumped by men. She hooks up with these guys that have no serious intentions. Some of them seem nice but just wind up using her for sex. Others are abusive towards

I sometimes scan celebrity news (don’t pretend like you don’t!). So I was alarmed, as many people were, to read rapper and actor T.I.’s strange statements on fatherhood. I won’t repeat what he said, but feel free to read the story if you haven’t heard it by now. The celebrity dad was criticized for his

Interestingly, everything we THINK we know about attraction, or at least what we assume to be true, is oftentimes proven untrue! We assume things based on hearsay or Facebook discussion, or maybe even because we heard it in a movie. Maybe we even think things like “No one can explain attraction…it just happens.” Or, the