toxic dating advice

“if you aren’t interested, then you aren’t interested, and it’s honestly unfair to yourself and the guy to pretend that you are just because you feel pressured by other people to ‘give them a chance.'” so many teens think a ‘normal’ relationship is supposed to make you feel anxious and confused. people start thinking, ‘is this person really rejecting me or are they just playing hard to get?’ just be honest and clear from the beginning! it should just happen …

advice for toxic friendships

remember that you don’t deserve to be treated badly, especially by a friend, and that it’s not okay for them to act like this. if you’re unsure whether your friendship is toxic, check out this quiz to help you figure it out. do you think your friend is intentionally trying to hurt you or put you down? you might spend a lot of time flipping through your memories of them, scrolling through their social media, or asking other friends and …

mother problems relationship

an experienced counselor recently admitted to me that she felt out of her depth when a mother and adult daughter both came to see her for help with their incessant arguing. in the first insight, i show that the mother-daughter relationship is not difficult to understand once we realize that mothers and daughters do not relate in a cultural vacuum. instead, sandeep needed to understand the multigenerational sociocultural environment in which she and her mother lived. sandeep represented the first …

open relationship after infidelity

fiancé wanted to explore sleeping with other people and i did try to have the conversation about how to make it safe for me. it sucks and i kind of can’t believe i have to deal with something this egregious again (but like, more so). the fact he’d been cheating on you repeatedly, with many, many women is pretty much all that needs to be said on the subject. now, i can have some forgiveness and understanding for someone coming …

unhealthy marriage

when boredom sets in or tempers flare, you may start wondering what happened to your fairytale utopia. ask the experts and they will tell you there are as few as three and as many as twelve stages of love. and, when the question of whether a marriage is unhealthy arises, it’s important to return to this awareness. the marriage is a partnership, not an enmeshment. it takes a lot of energy to look within yourself and evaluate where you could …