Young love can be intensely emotional; separation requires continued understanding and caring.

Past infidelity can be overcome, with openness, apology, and renewed trust.

There are many risks to relationships, but also many ways to avoid or resolve them.

Instead of being “Rescuer” to someone flirting with danger, connect him or her to professional supports.

When someone’s a potential danger to themselves or others, you have a moral duty to report this.

Marriage is meant to be more than just hanging in, but both spouses need to demonstrate this.

Bad social habits like chomping and slurping are physically/emotionally upsetting to noise-sufferers, besides being rude.

Be honest with yourself about why you want “friendship” with a cheat partner.

Don’t waste your energy on snooping for “proof” when you already know something’s wrong.

Lovers have to have their secrets and also be included sometimes with each other’s close friends.

What happens at home should stay at home, not be gossip fuel.

Hold back judgments on the newly separated as they settle through a difficult time.

Children of divorced parents who date, only need to know when there’s a growing relationship with someone new.

When a marital mess threatens your child’s emotional health, take positive action with the child as priority.

When there’s no communication, no sex, it’s time for your own firm decisions.

A relative’s unusual “disappearance” must be relentlessly pursued.

When a partner gets stuck in dependency, call a deadline on making changes.

Don’t waste the happy times in family life with negative reactions to relative’s choices.

“Easy” money often involves hard realities.

Just say NO to sex with someone who’s only using you.

Naked photos between lovers, not sent online, are the only ones that don’t scream DELETE. 

Don’t turn another’s pressures into your drama; just show your understanding.

When leaving a needy partner, limit the potential hurt/devastation with outside supports. 

A soap-opera relationship’s unlikely to produce a healthy future.

When you rely on grandparents as full-time babysitters, don’t expect them to not be in your lives otherwise.

Battling addiction is a personal struggle for survival.

Help children accept different lifestyle choices in their own family, without fear or hostility.

Parents’ divorce is unsettling to adult children, but doesn’t negate past harmony.

A relationship’s end is an opportunity for self-reflection, confidence-boosting, and personal growth.

Knowing It’s Over should come after making an effort, weighing options, and without delaying from fear.

A spouse’s obsession with your past relationships, or an ex, is a cry for understanding and reassurance.

If constantly discussing doubts and distancing, it’s not a healthy relationship. 

Friendships are often smoother than family relationships like siblings, due to limits and separateness.

Co-dependents hold each other back; no one truly benefits.

Be open with adult daughter about conflicts over her sexual activity. 

Parents: Wedding rifts can curtail a relationship with your offspring, and future grandkids.

Love me, love my pets, should be the beginning of a discussion, not a too-late conflict.

Hitting on the “Hottie” in the gym is more “groupie” behaviour than genuinely attracting the other person.

Dating someone too-recently separated usually leads to sharing his or her baggage load. 

Saved love letters and mementoes from the past rightfully belong to the person who sent them, once the recipient passes on.

Wedding guests should base their gift on what they can truly afford.

In a marriage, scorecards don’t matter nearly as much as how you balance out your differences with compromises and solutions.

Hook-up culture isn’t for everyone, so be clear with yourself and others what you can accept in a sexual connection.

When an adult child has a worrisome sexual relationship, discussions and action must be carefully thought out.

When a young friend’s “suicidal,” report it to people who know what to do.

To keep a regretted affair in the past, leave the “other person” there, too.

Stop supporting a “user,” and their pretense of interest in you ends abruptly.

Always stand up against abuse, even if the offender was/is a friend. 

Teens are ready to date, if able to set their own limits. 

If you view your spouse as an opponent in power struggles, the divide only increases.