Category: Dating

  • Exclusive, or not? What it means to NOT define your relationship

    Now I may be treading uncharted waters here, but I guess I enjoy a little controversy. Plus, I will never quite understand how any relationship can “move forward” without directing it’s sails with the wind. The key is knowing the direction of the wind! If you’re not able to discuss one another’s emotional stance, how…

    Read more

  • If he always leaves you disappointed, it’s time to call it quits

    Let me make one thing perfectly clear before you read on: disappointment in relationships is inevitable, so we must learn to brace for impact. Because, inevitably, we’re all bound to make mistakes. But there is a clear difference between a mistake, and an excuse in terms of negative behavior in dating, relationships and even marriage. So…

    Read more

  • 10 Tactics To Being Heard In Your Relationship

    Good communication starts with listening, but that would all be so easy to understand if we all communicated the same. Of course not – men and women both communicate and listen differently. Yet there’s one similarity that is part of our human nature – we all want to be heard. We need to be willingly…

    Read more

  • In a new relationship? Here are 75+ gift ideas that aren’t *too much*

    As a now-married woman, gifting for my husband has not become any easier. Yet I still remember when we first started dating, I didn’t want to get him something that came off “desperate” or “too much, too soon”, you know? If this sounds like you – you’re in a new relationship and in need of…

    Read more

  • 3 Reasons The Holidays Makes Or Breaks Relationships

    The Holidays, especially Christmas, are actually the peak times of the year where most fairly new relationships take a plunge. Weird, right? Not really, if you think about it. The Holidays are a stressful time of year for most, aside from all of the Joyous aspects Thanksgiving and Christmas brings. So ironically, the Holidays makes…

    Read more