Relationships
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How to stop being defensive when you feel under attack
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Defensiveness – it’s the gut reaction to defend yourself when you feel someone has said or done something unfairly or negatively to you. When you feel attacked you will either shut down, run away, hide or retaliate to protect yourself. You know all too well what that feels like. The blood is rushing to your face, you start…
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Gift guide for couples – 7 Ways to bring the romance for the Holidays
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This post received complimentary product by Kisses 4 Us® in exchange for a gift guide recognition. The Holidays are right around the corner! Um, yesterday was June I thought? And that’s what happens when you blink. Before you know it, you’re trying to remember all the things you came across throughout the year and said…
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4 Signs of gaslighting in relationships – hello, it’s coming from you!
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Since gaslighting is a control tactic through manipulation, it’s almost a guarantee you have been gaslit at some point in your life – even thanks to politics, specialists, marketing, corporations, culture and social media. Gaslighting in relationships is no exception either. But while we’re pretty hyper-focused on the things in which happen to us, are…
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If Communication Is Hard, Connect With Your Spouse First
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Crazy thought, right? It took me a while to grasp this understanding, but if you think about it it actually does make the most sense. Everywhere you read gives you bullet points on how to improve communication with your partner (I, too, am guilty – you can read that post here), but the way we…
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Why is online dating so hard in a tech world?
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I see this question so often nowadays. It’s funny because when online dating first came about, it was hard then, too. We knew this because people have been having strictly online-based relationships for years, and we know how most of those end up. Yet here we are, where instantaneous, online connections are easily considered the…