Sex And The Single Girl: How To Combat Bedroom Insults
Life as a single lass can be sexy, wondrous and fun, but occasionally you’re going to meet, date and get naked with people who will insult your beautiful, perfectly imperfect mind, body and soul....
View Article18 Questions You Need To Ask Your SO Before Getting Hitched
So you’re in love? As you and your hubby-to-be spend time preparing for the big day, it’s important to take a step back from obsessing over napkins, ensuring the DJ doesn’t play Taylor Swift and...
View Article16 Things Monica And Chandler Taught Us About Healthy Relationships
They’ll always be our ultimate friends turned soulmates. When it comes to great romantic pairings throughout history, Monica and Chandler are right up there with the legends: Sid and Nancy, Napoleon...
View Article14 Signs You’ve Accidentally Lost Your Identity To Your Relationship
Being yourself should make your relationship better. We’ve all had that friend: the one who gets into a new relationship and disappears. Suddenly she’s always busy when you need her – and when you do...
View Article11 Signs You’re Actually In A Really Healthy Relationship
What if everything is going just the way it should? Most of us have read enough and been through enough to know the signs to look out for that indicate a relationship’s gone toxic. We pretty...
View Article16 Signs You’re The Clingy Friend
No, really – you can’t sit with us. We’ve all had that friend – and chances are, we’ve all been that friend from time to time. You know the one: she won’t stop calling, she gets upset if you take too...
View ArticleWhy I’m Making My New Year’s Resolutions All About My Partner
Because what’s more important than your relationship, really? The other day in therapy, I was detailing some dumb worry I had about my boyfriend when I paused my rambling monologue, frustrated with...
View ArticleIf You’re Doing These Things, Your Marriage Might Be Headed For Divorce
Once you see them, you can’t unsee them… You know that couple you thought would never break up, until one day they surprised everyone by splitting, seemingly out of the blue? They were the ones who...
View ArticleGiving Up On Love Made Me Happier Than I Could’ve Imagined
Love isn’t what I used to think it was. Near the end of my marriage, when my husband and I were half-heartedly going to therapy and I was secretly, nervously, excitedly planning my new life, I remember...
View Article8 Signs You’re Giving Way More Than You Should In Your Relationship
If you’re not getting anything back, it’s time to go. Pop quiz: when’s the last time you did something for your partner? It might have been something small, like pouring him a cup of coffee when he...
View ArticleBeing Your True Self Might Actually Be Terrible For Your Relationship
Go ahead – pretend you’re better than you are. You know how, when you’re first falling in love with someone, you try really hard to only be your best self around them? In hopes of keeping the magic...
View ArticleThe Story You Tell About How You Met Can Make Or Break Your Relationship
There’s more than one side to every story. Do you like telling people about how you met your partner? When you tell the story, do you focus on how sweet it was and how it was meant to be, or do you...
View ArticleWhy People Who Fight Have The Healthiest Relationships
You can be a lover and a fighter. Whenever my boyfriend and I fight, one of us inevitably gets frustrated and says, “I don’t want to fight about this. I hate fighting!” To which the other responds, “Me...
View ArticleThe Truth About Deception: Why Your Relationship Needs Lying To Survive
You can’t handle the truth. It’s one of the things we teach our kids from the time they’re old enough to talk: always tell the truth. We repeat the story of young George Washington, who used his shiny...
View ArticleHow to Make a New Relationship Work
Starting a new relationship? It’s a time filled with excitement, nerves, butterflies, and expectations. The beginning of a relationship plays a major part in whether it lasts. Effective communication,...
View ArticleRelationship Advice from 5 Happily Married Couples
We live in a world of contradictions: a continuos stream of “happily ever afters” as well as alarmingly high rates of divorce. So what makes a relationship work in this day and age? Five different...
View ArticleRelationship Advice for Combined Families
So you’ve met a great guy. He’s funny, interesting and pretty cute. There’s just one hitch – he has kids. Combined families are pretty common these days, but advice on how to handle the new family...
View Article5 Questions to Ask When Your Relationship Gets Serious
When a relationship goes from dating to serious, “marriage” and “commitment” are ideas that start to get casually thrown around. Dreaming of a future together can be exciting, but it’s important to...
View ArticleMeeting the Parents for the First Time
Meeting the parents can be a nerve-wracking experience for anyone. You’ve seen Meet the Parents, right? Even if they’re the nicest people in the world, the experience can be quite intimidating. The...
View ArticleCoping With Determined Kids And Teens
Loads of parents teach their kids to think for themselves, have goals, opinions and not follow their mates, if they want to jump of a cliff. We encourage them to be proactive in making the world around...
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