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Should I Stay in My Relationship?

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Committing or Leaving Only you know what is really going on in your relatio...

Dating While Jaded

One bad date is discouraging, two is annoying, and three or more bad dates can make you jaded. Dating from this...

New Vows for Modern, Egalitarian Love?

What do marriage vows really mean? "To honor and respect" or "to love and to cherish" ?? What does that actuall...

I Can't Believe She Broke Up With Him!

Here’s why you are entitled to literally zero opinion about anybody’s break up. If just the fact that a ...

To Split or Not To Split?

That is the highly-charged dating question of the decade, and I don’t have a perfect answer. I do, howeve...

Flirting 101: 3 Easy Steps

Flirting doesn't have to be super clever or involve a perfect wink. Flirting is simply the way you let a m...

How to Deal with Your Own Insecurity

In intimate relationships, insecurity is like a grenade. Your evening can be going great and suddenly your holding t...

Don't Be Scared, It's Just Online Dating

It surprises me how many people are “freaked out” by online dating. There still seems to be a stigm...

The Pleaser & The Narcissist

Just as the Narcissus comes in many varieties, so do Narcissists... I am capitalizing the word because they would ins...