Dating can feel like a credit card with a very low limit. Every excuse you make, every ignored red flag, every “maybe they will change” charge adds up—and eventually the interest comes due. Emotional exhaustion is real, and yet so many of us keep spending it like it’s limitless. Ask yourself: if you are already emotionally drained, does it make…
Here is the problem: love is not telepathy. Love is communication. It is saying, “I need a hug today” or “Please don’t borrow my favorite mug, it is sacred.” It is expressing your needs...
Happiness is not the rush you feel after one good date. It is not the sudden sense that you have “finally found your person” because someone laughed at your joke and touched your arm. That is chemistry. Chemistry is loud. Happiness is not. Happiness is closer to emotional hygiene. It is routine. It is unexciting. It is doing small things…
A relationship should be a shared shelter, not a battlefield where you’re the only one patching the walls. You can still love someone while protecting your own peace. In fact, if you want the love to survive, you have to.
You have probably heard this one from well-meaning relatives, glossy lifestyle magazines, or that one annoyingly upbeat couple on social media: Never go to bed angry.
You open Instagram. There they are again: the soft-lit selfies of happy couples holding hands in cafés you can’t afford, kissing on beaches you can’t get to, captioned with quotes about “finding your forever.” You scroll faster, but it’s everywhere. Apparently, everyone is madly in love except you. Maybe you’ve just been dumped. Maybe you’ve been single so long you’re…
I’ve been in love enough times to know it’s not always candlelight and slow dances. Sometimes it’s betrayal in the form of a text. Sometimes it’s silence where there used to be warmth. And sometimes it’s watching someone choose someone else while you’re still holding all the memories. When it happened to me — the breakup, the rejection, the slow…
A while ago, I reconnected with an old friend from childhood. It felt serendipitous—like the universe had handed me a second chance at something special. We had a great first date. The conversation flowed easily, the laughter came naturally, and the comfort of shared history made everything feel warm and familiar. Then, a few days later, my phone lit up…
Success and self-growth change you — and, inevitably, they change your relationship, especially when the person you share your life with liked you better before you dared to want more. At first, the signs are small. They dismiss your new goals. They make jokes about you “thinking you’re better.” They roll their eyes when you talk about the future you’re…
Ah yes—the classic insult thrown when someone runs out of clever arguments:“No wonder you’re single.” As if that’s supposed to burn. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. If anything, it reveals more about their mindset than your marital status. Let’s be honest. Being single is often the result of high standards, not low value. It’s the reward for not settling, not a…