“Don't forget to love yourself.” - Soren Kierkegaard Do you know what it means to love yourself? We all want to fit in and feel like we belong. Many of us have that constant nagging little voice telling us we aren’t like everyone else. However, I often wonder, does everyone have that nagging voice or only some of us? What is so wrong with being different, with not being what others consider normal? Albert [...]
I must admit, there was a time when I was questioning my relationship and I thought of leaving so I read this book entitled Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay. Honestly, I believe the author did a very thorough job, gave great examples to support her positions and overall wrote a really helpful book. So many of us are faced with the dilemma of whether to leave a relationship or not. Sometimes you [...]
“The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.”― Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls Can we have a little girl talk for a minute? Can we talk about the reality of having an affair and being a mistress? Can we talk about the truth of what's going on and how its affecting you and [...]
Do you wonder why you’re never happy with your partner once you get into a committed relationship? Do you find that you start blaming them for not meeting your needs, but you fail to express it outwardly and it turns into resentment and anger? Do you find yourself repeating the same patterns over and over and you’re starting to realize that maybe you’re a part of the problem? Have you read all the expert advice [...]
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together" - Marilyn Monroe If anyone has been through break-up heartache- it’s me. I’m on my sixth long term relationship. Every time I went through a break-up, I thought the world was ending. I thought they were the only one. I thought certainly there must be a mistake. I thought they were the one for me and I must be completely in the wrong, right? [...]
"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre Let me be clear here, a guy who is scared of commitment isn’t the same as a commitment Avoidant guy. Steer clear of anyone who is deeply afraid (more than scared) of commitment. I dated a man for two and a half years who would never fully commit even though we spent every major holiday together, he stayed at my house and I stayed at [...]
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." - T. S. Eliot Are you emotionally intense? Do you feel like you’re just “too much” for most people? Do you worry that everything you feel comes in massive [...]
“ Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin There are a ton of tips and tools that go into making a a long distance relationship work, however having been in a number myself I can tell you that there are a few requirements that are a must. Here are 7 tips to help you make your long distance relationship work. 1. [...]
"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty." - Stephen Covey Do you want to know if you should leave your cheating husband or boyfriend? A lot of women come to me asking if they should forgive their cheating husband or boyfriend. They want to know how to get past the betrayal and fix the relationship. It amazes me that they want to know what they can do to make [...]
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities." - Patti Roberts Break ups just plain suck. Every holiday that goes by can make it even harder, especially hard if were just dumped or are spending the time without your significant other for the first time in a long time. I can’t begin to tell you how many holidays I’ve spent alone. During some of them [...]
