The decision on whether to end a relationship or “keep hanging on” is always heart-wrenching. The truth is, it never feels good to admit we made a mistake. And truth be told, it usually is very painful for most women to leave a man—even if he’s abusive, even if he makes her miserable. Because in […]
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Men are easy to figure out, right? They just want sex. Then they want love and attention. Figure that out and you’ll have a man for life! The only problem is…it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes men want something MORE than just sex, more than just attention and “love”…or at least the love
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For every Disney Prince you dream of meeting in real life, there’s also a Gaston or a Hans, or in other words, some anti-prince who just ruins your happily ever after romance. It’s even worse when these villains, these bad guys, PRETEND to be the hero. Your Evil Prince may even pretend to be your
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Is your once red-hot relationship tasting a little stale lately? Why is it that when you’re in a committed relationship, the food seems to get better and better, but the sex and the romance always seem to go downhill? You started spicy hot, then you went down to microwave dinner quality, and eventually to hospital
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Gaslighting refers to tactics of abusive manipulation in a relationship and is actually a colloquial term referring to the film/play Gas Light by George Cukor. While this is a fairly common technique observed in certain groups (i.e. cults, companies, even politics) it is quite a disturbing experience to see your partner behaving in this way
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Building trust is surprisingly difficult in a relationship, even when two people are deeply in love with each other. The reason being, love and commitment is an organism that must be “kept alive.” You can’t take it for granted and assume that your love is so universally powerful that it can survive anything because it
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Of course, the politically correct thing is to not see color at all and to approach an interracial relationship as any other “same race” relationship. And as great as that sounds, there’s one problem with that. That attitude doesn’t actually prepare you for the challenges that do arise when you date someone who is ethnically
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Have you ever heard an older couple say, “They’re in the newlywed stage!” Maybe they’re even talking about you and your husband / boyfriend. Yes, every couple does go through the “newlywed stage” and seem to love, coo, groom and flirt like lovebirds. It’s easy to identify newlyweds whenever you see them, they have a
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Many of us have loved, lost, and even “lost connection” with an Internet flame. Yes, the long-distance relationship characterized by online dating. Thanks to the ubiquity of social media, online dating isn’t nearly as weird now as it was 20 years. In fact, I dare to say that dating online is even more enjoyable than
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You could say there are two types of single people in the world. One, people who want to be single because they’ve given up looking for a partner. Two, people who are very unhappily single and can’t seem to find someone despite their best efforts. I thoroughly believe some people do just want to stay
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