Never having a “serious relationship chat,” means having no voice about your life together.

Marriage break-up affects even the in-law parents/grandparents caught in the drama.

This Christmas is a national celebration, not only of our secular traditions related to it. Along with our diverse faiths, it’s about who we are as a people and will be again – resilient, hopeful, staying the course to outlive the pandemic.

Don’t “counsel” your relationship partner. Instead, support his/her getting professional help.

Relationship counselling’s available online during the pandemic. Find the “right fit.”

Couples need to talk together – not interrogate, suspect, and label.

A new relationship with an odd, unexplained flaw from early on, rarely becomes a lasting bond.

Adult children of divorce can re-learn relationship trust from counselling.

An adult brother can no longer bully you when it comes to your protecting your mother from COVID-19.

When a spouse feels intense attachment elsewhere, discuss feelings/intensions and seek counselling help.

Early abandonment by her father can turn a daughter to blaming her mother, even into adulthood.

Try to prevent COVID-19 from destroying family relationships. Tension/fear can weaken needed energy to stay safe.

Consider this: If your lover weren’t married, would you be chosen for marriage, or just for cheating?

Don’t let a lockdown bring out the worst of your relationship from the past. Use it for connecting positively whenever possible.

A healthy relationship mantra for 2020: Adapt and accept what’s essential to safe survival without risking others.

The time for choosing a life partner is when you’re certain that he/she is the one you love, respect and trust.

An affair doesn’t have to end a marriage. What matters is why it happened and what can be saved and/or revived.

Online dating? Ask questions, listen, discuss interests, make a “meaningful connection” before you imagine that it’s a romantic relationship.

Using sex to bargain, your girlfriend insists you separate from your wife before she’ll trust you.

Sometimes love and happiness count more than the issue you’re letting divide you from it.

Unconditional love is built on caring deeply, sharing good and bad, adapting and staying the course.

Feeling “stuck” in your marriage while loving another, hurts everyone involved.

Committed second-time relationships after a loss or divorce need to be respected be other family members.

Repeatedly choosing dangerous relationship partners is a desperate cry for help.

Someone who talks a lot about a spouse who’s died, may still be mourning the loss. Or shares his/her past story to become closer with you.

Divorce is hard on everyone involved. Understand the legal process. Try marital and/or personal counselling. Focus on children’s needs.

When embattled siblings refuse peace-making, show them emotional/health effects on other family members.

Seek remedies for co-workers’ lies/gossip while rising above them.

Pandemic-related considerations for parents of youngsters: Allow socializing only with “same cohort” friends, outdoors if possible, masked if indoors.

Giving a relationship partner an ultimatum that doesn’t make sense, equals issuing “controls” that must be avoided.

When there’s an ongoing sexual problem for either partner, discuss it as a couple’s problem to research and find emotional, physical or medical help together.

Despite tense times, marital ultimatums aren’t solutions. Get informed about divorce laws.

Drug addiction affects not only the user but also harms the whole family. Seek help for everyone involved.

COVID-19 remains with us for some months ahead. If people you care about take risks, connect virtually only.

Aware that a friend’s cheating? Don’t snitch. Instead, warn him/her of the inevitable harm to spouse/kids/career.

Online dating relying on photos invites rejection. Talk to people’s faces virtually before considering meeting in person.

Giving upon yourself is what makes it harder to find love and a relationship partner.

A friendship that overrides a marriage requires open discussion.

When a marriage suddenly ends, focus on immediate reactions emotions of children involved.

Before raising very sensitive personal issues regarding sex with someone, get fully informed first, and consider your own sensitivity, too.

Adult children’s watch on their senior-generation’s pandemic response, should feel natural and respectful.

When a normally happy partner turns argumentative, look first for non-blaming reasons of health changes, and/or pressures from the pandemic.

Siblings who can rise above any envy over differing incomes/lifestyles, benefit from mutual emotional support.

A person who “ghosts” others is a coward. Period.

Holding onto past hurts only keeps you suffering. Forgive your lingering self-doubts. Trust yourself and put others’ nastiness behind you.

Look into available and free mental health/wellness supports to combat anxiety, depression etc.

While scientific facts about COVID-19 are still emerging, self-protective measures with dogs/cats, remain necessary.

When an unhealthy relationship finally ends, focus on regaining your self-confidence and emotional/physical well-being.

Lessen deep feelings of loneliness by reaching out to people who also need help finding meaningful connections that can last, and through volunteering.

Apologize for a past disagreement while communication is still possible, to try to avoid total estrangement.