Knowing that a person may be unwittingly in danger of an assault imposes a moral duty to warn them.

If you accept less than you want, you’ll get just that.

When you’re brought in as an extra, you’re not being considered for the lead role.

Moving on means taking steps to not dwell in the past.

Don’t focus on small stuff when the bigger picture’s solid.

Breaking the girlfriend code about dating an ex risks the friendship.

Working as a team instead of as adversaries, to resolve major problems, changes a couple’s dynamic.

When parents deal in lies, distrust, and retaliation, everyone suffers.

Waiting for someone’s other relationship to fail means living in limbo and pain.

A couple in love can only withstand parental obstruction for so long before the relationship suffers.

Don’t accept excuses for repeated drunkenness and cheating.

Tell someone your feelings for them after you’ve found some common ground as friends.

Recognize that a “ taker” will never change, neither for a partner nor friend.

When you know that a relationship’s stagnating, it’s been that way too long.

Be clear about your inner feelings, not just anger, when expressing relationship concerns.

Depression makes decisions about moving difficult, but having mutual love trumps many other choices.

Relying on a long-time liar and cheater remains risky.

Couples can only handle family resistance when they’re both confident of  their right to the relationship.

Don’t let past ghosts shadow a healthy relationship.

Looking to escape a relationship problem, puts one in the Cheating Zone.

The Cheating Zone is the place people enter when they decide they’re entitled to seek excitement and attention away from their partner.

If you love someone, say so, rather than just listen to their problems with someone else.

When a negative relationship pattern persists, counselling can help change it.

Counselling is crucial to helping someone handle the hurt and self-esteem blow of having been abandoned by a parent.

Professional counselling boosts self-understanding, which is necessary for making crucial relationship decisions.

When family tensions are high, back off criticism, or alert police to threats.

Ease each other’s transition from singlehood to married life, through compromise instead of criticism.

Make sure you don’t just look to someone else to rescue you from a lost relationship.

Examining your own part in a break-up can help you learn how to achieve greater happiness in your next relationship.

Time, and taking care of yourself physically and emotionally, ultimately heal break-up wounds.

You can’t know whether Mom’s boyfriend treats her decently without meeting him.

Reasonable distrust doesn’t go away unless the reason no longer exists.

Enabling a friend to wallow in denial about a break-up isn’t healthy support.

Plan your wedding as the positive beginning it’s meant to symbolize.

When there’s a serious health factor affecting the relationship, get fully informed and realistic about dealing with it.

In an acrimonious divorce, involving the other side’s family can create more problems.

Personal counselling can help you face a major decision from inner strength.

When there’s no “progress” in your relationship, change depends on you.

Relationships can get stalled when both parties refuse to compromise and adapt to each other’s needs.

When a relationship ends, don’t pursue it as a friendship until emotions have long settled.

Abused women in our own communities need access and help to find safety.

Cell-phone addiction negatively affects interpersonal connections through neglect and rudeness.

Love rarely survives long-term in the midst of ongoing complicated and competing relationships.

When an organized neat-nik and committed slob join forces, lots of love, compromise, and creativity’s needed.

Marriages can renew only if both parties work at re-building trust and understanding.

A physically abusive ex-boyfriend should have legally defined and monitored visits with the baby he didn’t want.

If a spouse’s cheating makes you want to “escape,” take a break to think it through with professional and legal guidance.

Secrets and lies erode relationships. Speak up early about anything that can be interpreted as a deceit.

Get couples’ counselling if a negative view of marriage is causing doubts and delays.

Seeking counselling about your contribution to a marriage’s failure may win you a second chance.