Tip of the Day Archive
Tomorrow – devise your own plan for online dating.
Get informed about the personal impact of divorce, and use counselling, and mediation to ease the upheaval.
Parents who let adult children freeload, mistakenly contribute to their ongoing problems.
There’s more power towards a solution when workplace problems are presented as a group.
If there’s needed contact with an ex, your current partner needs to know (and accept) its limits.
When a partner’s intent is questionable, bolster your self-confidence that YOU have limits and options.
Recognizing your own negative reactions is an important step to changing them, IF you become pro-active.
If a six-month relationship doesn’t include any talk of feelings or future, define your own boundaries by taking a break.
Some decisions are easier made when you stop reacting and think logically.
If you’re dating seriously but pining for another, you’ll end up making at least two people miserable.
If sex during dating always has one-sided pressures, the relationship’s not healthy.
If only one of you wants the booty calls to become a relationship, there’s little chance.
Relationships thrive when true to both partners’ beliefs and value system.
When you become a couple, your other family demands need to have limits.
In a health crisis, partners need to understand that emotional support is paramount.
Whatever the reason for a break-up, you need time to mourn, and a personal kick-start to get going again.
If you seek perfection in every area of life, the stress will outweigh the achievements.
Accepting constant fighting from an angry partner can easily lead to physical abuse.
When one person gets more of the total benefits, re-examine the relationship.
If considering leaving a depressive partner, get solid information about all that’s potentially involved, especially emotionally.
When only one person wants the relationship kept secret, it’s already at risk.
When you feel pressured to do what others’ want, step back and work on forming your own decisions.
Excess weight gain may be a cry for help that a partner can help address.
Third-party professionals bring needed insights to problems.
Relationships with former lovers need a couple’s agreed boundaries.
To get past a cheating incident, both partners must understand what led to it.
On sensitive topics, send clear messages instead of waiting to be offended.
Withholding knowledge of someone cheating on your close friend/relative, risks that person’s physical and emotional health.
Do whatever’s needed to protect your marriage from others’ nastiness.
Reject separation “arrangements” that only suit one party.
If your cat can bring out your neighbour’s claws, be very mindful of your children’s safety.
Couples must compromise, for their relationship to thrive.
Take a full year, at least, after a major traumatic loss, before making other big lifestyle changes.
Planning a destination wedding? Expect lots of reaction as well as a good time.
Truth is crucial to getting others to understand complicated relationships.
Cultural symbols for romance and marriage must be explained in order to bring the desired response.
An addiction to “attention” brings risk to everyone involved with the cheater.
A naturally occurring break during early dating can reveal whether there’s long-term interest.
If raising dogs together is divisive, think hard before deciding to have children together.
When you have to talk yourself into a relationship based on what a person’s like “on paper,” tear up the paper and move on.
Differing financial legacies for children need to have safeguards for later management.
Lifetime secrets impact on everyone involved, so any revelations must be thoughtfully planned.
A rumour shouldn’t end a marriage, and even an affair has reasons to consider staying together.
Pet ownership is a responsibility that reflects as much about you as about the animals.
The sooner you speak up against another’s controls, the better.
An adult, who’s unsure of his/her sexual identity, would benefit from professional guidance.
Have a safe plan ready for potential victims, and report abuse/violence to Police.
It’s easier to gripe than work at refreshing a marriage, but it’s far less satisfying in bed.
When a friend has a past history of self-harm, your own behaviour must take that vulnerability into account.
A “secret” child should be brought to awareness of the whole family, especially once surfaced.