Save your energy for staying well and managing through stay-home orders until the time for change is as safe and informed as possible.

Smoking and vaping allow COVID-19 to attack even young lungs already weakened by regularly inhaling nicotine.

Divorced parents must be honest and open with adult children about a serious love relationship.

When a relationship’s over, it’s obvious. Accept it and move on.

Families at home with children must muster their strengths, tolerance, creativity, and determination to fight the virus’ spread.

In war, everyone’s at risk. In a pandemic, even those who feel invulnerable may spread the deadly disease which can turn on them too.

Emotional/verbal family abuse can be harmful to both abuser and abused. Protect yourself, help the weaker one if possible.

Some difficult mother/daughter relationships still call for moments of connection (remotely) during this dangerous pandemic.

Children need close family support during this pandemic.

Former cheaters may change when older… or not.

Show the realities of what COVID-19 does to victims, to teenagers who resent strict rules.

At a time of pandemic fears, try to smooth family squabbles any decent way you can.

Adapt to the “new-normal” in our changing world.

Nasty gossip affecting children is bullying. School officials must take action.

Love should blend two people’s needs and desires, not what their adult children prefer.

When shared custody issues cause grief to older children, get legal/mediator help to change the agreement.

Stay up-to-date informed about the risks in your community and living situation, related to having sex during  the coronavirus.

Don’t let external difficulties beyond your control divide you. Set boundaries and co-operate to get through it.

Find your “normal” to maintain needed relationships, especially the one with yourself.

Responding to what’s needed in crises and helping others, keep individuals/families and communities strong.

In this COVID-19 crisis, do everything possible based on information to date, to keep your household members safe.

These critical times that carry serious health threats, require great patience, understanding and trust, especially in still-developing relationships.

Many families are exercising responsible care/concern for their older generation during Covid-19.

Too much couple togetherness staying home? Solve small stuff, compromise on bigger things, connect as friends and lovers.

When you self-isolate from exposure to the coronavirus, you’re helping yourself and the immediate, critical need to slow the surge of illness for us all.

Getting through social isolation requires finding online resources for human connection, creativity, fitness, and needed help.

In these tough times, “lean in” to your important relationships, with a partner, close family and friends, together, online and whatever ways possible.

A basic difference in values is a deal-breaker.

Repeated emotional abuse can destroy a marriage, drive families apart and scar the children.

Follow experts’ advice and support relatives’ efforts to stay healthy through the pandemic.

If a close friend shows signs of insecurity plus jealousy of you, avoid triggering her/his anxieties.

Friendships sometimes end when one party needs to deal privately with tough family situations.

If a friend’s partner comes-on inappropriately, walk away.

A separate short-term vacation can benefit parents and kids, if handled supportively.

When divorce causes children ongoing distress, they need reassurance of being loved, not being at fault. They may also need therapy.

It’s worth a try to give true love a chance.

When an ex-spouse’s relationship may threaten a sensitive child’s stability, get counselling and support services for help.

Women in abusive relationships need courage/support to get themselves (and their children) to safety as soon as possible.

When there’s ongoing stress between two generations of women with uncertain roles,

seek solutions, not blame.

Weigh life’s risks and go forward with those for which you have passion and learned experience.

Probe through counselling why someone cheated and whether to trust him/her again.

You’re not “crazy,” he’s lying. Get counselling help.

Got a “crush”? Text messaging should be mutual, without pressure to be instant, except when in emergencies.

When a date reveals sexual quirks that turn you off, don’t doubt yourself, move on.

When your post-divorce ex is your “best friend,” almost anything is possible.

Since money can be a harsh deal-breaker, discuss issues like wills well ahead, especially where children are from previous marriages.

Abuse cannot be accepted, neither for the sake of love nor parenting. Change must be absolute or distrusted.

There’s a lot more needed in a partner, to sustain a loving relationship, than just good looks.

In a break-up, becoming “friends” doesn’t easily work for the person being rejected as a lover/partner. Proceed decently but firmly.

Red flags for narcissism in early dating include arrogance, repeated cheating, and passive-aggressive comments.