Unhappy? Change what bogs you down. Look at “why” before “who.”

Estranged families, and especially grandparents and grandchildren, experience the terrible loss of generational joy in each other’s love.

Seniors who start over once widowed, often live longer, happier lives.

Mixing family, love and finance can stir up a spicy stew.

Mental health issues, such as multiple personality disorders, are very hard to understand and navigate. Seek professional advice to deal with each specialized situation.

When you reach a “certain age,” take a step back and let people make their own mistakes.

When dating online, it’s best to learn about each other slowly and thoughtfully.

Never discount the effects of a neglected, lonely, emotionally-abusive childhood. If you’ve known love and support, help your partner/lover embrace a can-do attitude towards the future.

New relationships involving changed locations/backgrounds/family life require time and compromises to maintain their loving connection.

After a life-partner’s loss and grief, some people ultimately find new, loving relationships. It’s a cycle of life, not a rejection of the past.

Haunted by past sexual abuse, this woman needs a therapist’s guidance more than her unsupportive family.

Try harder to get along with your brother’s wife, or you’ll continue losing sibling closeness.

Relationships whither from hurts and retaliation. Find peace together, or move on.

Divorce isn’t always the end of a family connection. The original love between a couple, and their children, can live on in memory and respect.

A long-term couple relationship thrives on mutual fairness as well as equal support.

A long-time “friend” who’s known to have spread gossip and “trash-talk” about you and your young teenagers, is no friend at all. You can’t trust this person.

Stay clear of the dislike any of your friends may have towards each other. See them separately.

A long-term couple relationship thrives on mutual fairness as well as equal support.

Don’t let your aging mother-in-law’s apparent fears and meanness to you over losing her head-of-family status, break up your love relationship with your fiancé.

Loving, helpful in-laws can provide great emotional support to first-time parents. But ignoring their most important asks, can ruin the entire family’s relationship.

Marriages survive best on compromises, short-term breaks and long-term agreements.

Doubting yourself repeatedly can signal having been “gaslit.” Get the help of a psychotherapist/psychologist to end family or other “controlling” relationships.

Dogs, flower beds, grassy landscape and park benches are all potential “public” meeting places when looking for “The One.”

When once-close friends form strongly different/contentious opinions, distance gently. If you miss this person, reassess.

When only you sustain your marriage, it won’t improve unless you insist on changes, or separation.

Decide what matters most now, and for the future.

In a relationship, long-time quirks need to be discussed and understood by both people.

Jealousy can destroy a parent-child relationship, especially if the adult child perceives self-interest, personal ambition and past neglect from the parent’s successes.

In relationships, if you keep doing the same thing without a happy result, seek a psychologist’s professional insights as your guide.

After a loss/divorce, new romantic relationships are sometimes destroyed by jealous, money-seeking adult children. Discuss ahead, not later.

Divorce affects parent-child relationships, especially when a newcomer’s included. Assure children of your love.

You can’t know whether a relationship’s happening if both sides aren’t mentioning it.

Substance abuse can seem impossible to overcome. Or, with personal resolve and weighing the consequences rather than hold that belief, determination and addiction counselling can lead to healthy changes.

If you’re wondering why some people easily draw attention, start to explore/share your own background stories, experiences, yearnings. And wear them proudly!

Negative attitudes about “others” ignore the economic and cultural benefits of Canada’s world-acclaimed diversity, with newcomers bringing unique talents/skills/foods/music, and the ambitions of their children born here.

Responding to parents’ serious health needs is necessary. So is sharing information with your partner.

Small-minded people do their community and its children a disservice through mean, petty, and ignorant prejudices against race, religion and wrongly-assumed politics of immigrant “outsiders.”

Couples struggling with differences in mixed-race/cross-culture unions, can strengthen their love through communication, understanding, counselling.

Relationships that suit the needs of only one partner, reflect that person’s self-absorption and the other’s deflated (or weakened) self-esteem.

Finding passion in senior years is a gift. Handle it with care and build respectful boundaries into a thriving relationship.

Sometimes, a smile and gentle outreach to a stressed parent can calm the situation and save a child from harsher consequences.

Parents must make well-considered decisions regarding young children’s best interests, and include them in discussions and reasons for Yes or No.

The pandemic’s effects on would-be daters reveals the significance of stating what you expect/need from a relationship.

When several post-divorce relationships present major obstacles, perhaps the date-seeker actually fears any commitment.

Overwhelmed parents of toddlers/babies should seek local Moms/Dads groups where kids play (babies watch/sleep) while parents chat and learn.

Celebrating children’s birthdays, graduations and other milestones along with invited family/friends is a time-honoured tradition. But there’s no “honour” in setting up guests for a thankless cash-grab.

If a man with erectile dysfunction won’t attempt intimacy (loving words, embraces, kissing), enjoy his caring friendship, or move on.

Healthy seniors may enjoy added years of happiness with a new partner, barring adult children’s interference.

Awkward moments from one’s past are often misinterpreted in memory. Focus on present happiness.

Unexpected glimpses of others’ cheating behaviour are like an early warning system: Among the many choices presented to people new to relationship pitfalls, choose your own important values.