1. Your Exes
Nobody wants to hear about who came before them in a potential relationship. Keep the ex talk to a solid zero. Ex talk just makes a person feel compared to people that shouldn’t matter anymore.

2. Your Experiences Online
Keep the business of dating to yourself. Do not discuss your experiences dating online, in services, with matchmakers, etc. This keeps the... [Read more]

Is it love, or a mutual strangulation society? Martha Beck shows you five ways to get a real grip on the real thing.
In a folktale that has been retold for centuries in many variations (one of which is Shakespeare’s King Lear), an elderly king asks his three daughters how much they love him. The two older sisters deliver flowery speeches of filial adoration, but the youngest says only... [Read more]

By Laura Trice

I forget who told me this, but she said it was the best advice she had ever received and came from her dad and mom. Both her parents really liked the man she was marrying, and the church was filled with family and friends. Just before she walked down the aisle her mom and dad said that they would love and support her even if she changed her mind and realized she did not want... [Read more]

Have you had your heart broken and stomped on, and don’t want to know what that feels like again? But what if you let go of your fears and opened up to allowing your heart to be vulnerable again? Mike Robbins explains why the reward is much better than locking your heart up and throwing away the key.
How easily do you grant your trust to other people? What factors play into your ability... [Read more]

New research on the brain shows losing a lover can have the same effect on a person as trying to kick a substance addiction, says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.

She’s studied the brain for 35 years, and says that discovery is the most interesting one yet.

When people have been rejected from love, they pine for it, they whine for it, they live for it, and they die for... [Read more]

Al and Tipper breaking up? What a shock! But maybe not. Blame it on longevity.

As people lead longer, healthier lives, it is not surprising that long-married 60-somethings might decide to go their separate ways in order to make the most of the rest of their lives — not just a few sunset years, but possibly two or three decades. If they are not happy together, why should they stay together?

Every... [Read more]

Getting back together with an ex, haven’t we all considered it at one point or another? It would be so easy to slip right back into that comfortable routine, picking up where you left off. Or not.

Here are 9 very, very, very good reasons not to go back for round two at the ex-boyfriend buffet.

1. His quirks are no longer adorable– they’re annoying.

Back then,... [Read more]

1: “Stop all shame, blame, and criticism. Instead ask for what you want in a clear, specific, and positive manner, and express appreciation for your partner. To elaborate: Men need to feel competent—that they make a contribution and that it is noticed. They like to be told what ‘behavior’ makes you happy. Since men tend to express affection by doing things, you should interpret... [Read more]

No matter how well-adjusted or discreet we might think we are, some situations get the best of us. Turning down a friend’s pass, knowing how to console someone who is grieving, or even just accepting a heartfelt compliment can make us want to dive underneath the nearest table or bury our heads in deep sand. “Situations that require a process of transition create intense feelings of self-consciousness,”... [Read more]

If you’re in a relationship, your sweetheart’s happiness matters a lot to you. Not only because you care about that person’s happiness, but also because — due to a phenomenon called emotional contagion — you’re very likely to “catch” that mood. Unfortunately, bad moods are more catching than good moods.

What do you do if the love of your life... [Read more]