Adult life presents in stages, with past friends moving on but sometimes reconnecting years later.

Cheaters exist among all genders and for many motivations. Date casually until you’re certain of feeling full trust.

Don’t measure yourself by anyone else’s concept of your present and future. Live your dreams, and love yourself at any age.

Post-divorce marriage of a parent is easily worrying to adult children. A wise parent eases the two forces into a common understanding.

Define yourself as you are in the current time frame, based on hopes and plans for your future, not on your past.

Past trauma can have lasting effects. But current love and trust can overcome old fears.

Consider a needed divorce as a passage for reaffirming your values, staying close to trusted friends, and pursuing new interests.

Be grateful for the good that you have in your life. Period.

Don’t attribute factors in your life years back to having similar effects on your daughter’s life today.

Explore your city’s varied group activities. It’ll improve your life.

Don’t brood over long-ago hurts. Live in the present and enjoy the best life you can manage.

A close, caring relative can sometimes be the best person to confide in and discuss serious choices, when parents are too busy or distracted.

Where there’s committed love and trust, a partner’s independence isn’t a threat.

Reconnect with your own needs after a tough personal experience, before entering any new relationship.

When a couple stays close and loving, their “differences” can become a unique bond.

If the marriage you shared with your first spouse didn’t become “happily ever after,” think long and hard about what will make you two better at it now. You need to be sure, for everyone’s sake.

Paying for another’s overspending may cost the friendship

It’s too late to “re-educate” some people.

It’s not the calendar that’s negative, it’s how you see yourself. Seek counselling and mental health supports (some are free).

Do not dwell on the actions of someone you don’t know nor will ever respect.

We may not always seek or enjoy being a troubled sibling’s support person. But the instinct from within reflects kindness and caring.

For those who prefer Christmas gift-buying amid bustling crowds rather than ordering online, choose a like-minded shopping buddy for your outing.

When a family dispute revolves around a disputed bequest in a legal will, don’t get anxious. Find a trusted lawyer who handles legal wills as part of their law practice.

If you always see a change in past events from the view of how they affected you, there’s more chance of your staying stuck with the what-ifs of yester-year instead of the very much-needed what-now.

Plans made during an earlier romantic period don’t always last through time. Be prepared to adjust or change course.

Stay distanced from your spouse’s ex if things didn’t end well. Protect your own marriage through loving support.

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.