Posts tagged relationships
Stop Over-Idealizing Romantic Relationships

This viewpoint may seem productive in the short term, especially if you're just starting off in life after graduation with no solid income or network of friends and family around you. A lot of people get into relationships because it feels good—it feels better than being alone—and sometimes that can be more important than establishing whether or not two people are actually well-suited for each other long-term. But over time, even in your early 20s, the infatuation stage of a relationship wears off and you start to see people more clearly. Their flaws really begin to stand out and they might not be as perfect as you remembered them when you were in the throes of passion.

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Will It Ever End? Dating In A Post-Pandemic World (Someday)

The topics of love, relationships, and sex have always been shrouded in distorted messages, unhelpful lessons, and unrealistic goals of what a good and successful relationship "should" look like. However, a "date" was pretty straightforward. Back before everything went down, dating probably consisted of picking up your date from their home or apartment and taking he or she out for a fancy dinner or a movie. Generally, dating involved going out with someone and spending time with them doing things you both had interest in doing together in addition to spending time alone getting to know one another.

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Holding Your Ground and Compromising: Knowing How to Navigate a Fine Line

In relationships, in business, and in life, compromises are often necessary. You can't always get what you want unless you know when to compromise. So many things that we want depend on a transaction with other people. Additionally, sometimes it is better to give up some of what you want because the other party needs something else from you too. We are part of communities and it serves us all to share and sacrifice for each other.

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Avoiding Other People's Drama: How to Stay Calm, Cool and Collected

Do you have people in your life who have one major storm going at all times? Coworkers, friends, relatives, it can be anyone in your circle who is the source of problems. It's extremely easy to get caught up in other people's stress. Is this true for you--do you find it hard to keep distanced from other people's drama? Or do you think the bigger problem is just with your drama-loving circle of friends?

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The Top Five Predictors of a Healthy Romantic Relationship

Romantic relationships can take on a lot of forms, and it’s difficult to make hard and fast rules about what works and what doesn’t. However, there are researchers who are dedicated to this study, fortunately and they have a few important insights. Successful relationships, in fact, have several things in common!

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How to Spot a Narcissist

I come across so many women who have been abused or had their hearts broken by narcissists. Narcissistic Personalist Disorder is a medical diagnosis and is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. Narcissists are sometimes hard to identify as many of them are charismatic and accomplished.

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Wokefishing? Don't Get Taken Advantage of By a Phony Feminist.

What in the world is Wokefishing? Well apparently, some dating service users think they have exploited a loophole in our society. This moment in time is one where many inequities have come to light, and many are craving the friendship and attention of like-minded people in the fight for fairness. On the other hand there are some terrible humans who think this is an opportunity to get laid more easily.

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