Love & Relationships

Picture this: You’re at the bus stop with your suitcase, ready for an exciting journey. Thankfully, the bus arrives, and you hop on with high hopes, but instead of heading to your dream destination, it keeps going in circles. The scenery doesn’t change, the driver doesn’t seem to know the way, and all you hear …

It is impossible to be married to someone without ever pissing them off. It’s normal for couples to be angry at each other in the most successful relationships. How they handle the situation distinguishes them from less successful relationships. Resentment is very much different from being angry in many ways. In fact, the best way …

During one of my recent trips, I watched the movie Crazy Rich Asians on the flight to my destination, and I loved it. I’m not here to talk about the storyline, but one thing I like about the girl in the movie is that she didn’t cower in fear or suddenly begin to feel unworthy of …

“Losing someone you love is like losing a part of yourself.” I know that that statement might sound a bit dramatic, but in the world of love and relationships, it’s quite the reality, more common than we think. And trust me, I’m not talking about romantic books or movies; I’m talking about real life. When …

Ideally, marriage is meant to be a union built on love and mutual respect. In reality, successful marriages are built on this foundation. This isn’t going to be one of those times I will tell you that the ideal is not possible. The fact is that marriages have to be built on this foundation if …

“I, ____, take you, ____, to be my lawfully wedded (husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.” These are the words of a standard marriage vow. Marriage is usually seen as a lifetime commitment, …

Have you encountered a breakup or marriage in which the party who was left expressed shock that the relationship ended? You’d often hear things like, “I didn’t know she felt that way.” “One minute, we were good, and the next, he is asking us to break up.” The thing is, it didn’t happen in that …