Tag: relationships
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Travelling as a Relationship Test
Sooner or later while in the early stages of your relationship, you’re likely to want to go away somewhere, sharing time on a holiday break. There’s a lot to look forward to, a time full of excitement and romance. After all, it’s a great chance to step outside the normal day to day routines and…
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Are you still hung up on your ex?
They say that breaking up is the hardest thing to do – but for many of us it’s actually the bit that comes next that causes the most headaches. Moving on with your life should be a natural progression for anyone who has just come out of the other side of a relationship. The healthiest…
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Sustaining your sex life in your relationship
One of the greatest joys of a new relationship is the so-called ‘honeymoon’ period – that time when everything about your partnership is new and exciting. This is often the time when your sex life is at its most intense – that new relationship energy pushing you into each other’s arms and prompting you to…
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Can Two Alpha Personalities Get On?
We’ve written here before about how nice guys and gals typically come last when it comes to dating because of a lack of balance in power. If you don’t struggle to keep some measure of independence and equality, one of you essentially begins to run the relationship and makes all the decisions before getting bored…
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Is Female Success Bad For Relationships?
With gender stereotypes rather more fluid these days due to changing workplaces, it’s not surprising that success in business or creative areas is not necessarily going to come to the man of the household.. Recent research by psychologists suggests that many people still expect a woman to have a successful male partner, rather than a…
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Are You Scared Of Intimacy?
If you believe everything you read about online dating, you might think that setting up your profile and diving into the pool was the easiest and most natural thing in the world. For many people this is pretty accurate – there’s an excitement and flow to getting closer to meeting people for the first time…
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Handling Relationship Timings
How can you tell if you’re going to fall in love? It is surely one of the great mysteries of life, given that it is almost a guarantee that it will happen, but you have no way of telling when, or where, or how. You can almost certainly expect the other person to be in…
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Getting and Keeping Your Mojo
Have you ever noticed how things can pass you by for ages, and then suddenly a crop of coincidences will keep you hearing the same song, or seeing the same model of car or seeing the same time on the clock each day? In part it’s down to our ability to recognise patterns, and it’s…
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Getting the Balance in Relationships Right
By and large when we first meet someone, we’re pretty keen to be on the same page when it comes to issues of control and the balance of power within the relationship. Both people want to make a good impression, and so the decision making and compromises tend to switch back and forth between them.…
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Do Nice Guys and Girls Finish Last?
Our every instinct is to be as nice as possible in every way to our new partners when we start dating. We want them to think the best of us, so we always put them first and are prepared to drop everything at a moment’s notice to keep them happy. Surely, we think to ourselves,…
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7 Relationship Myths To Ignore
There’s a common misperception that there, somewhere, exists a rare beast known as the perfect relationship. This mythical relationship has no ups and downs, no sad times or happy times, just a never ending stream of steady being. It doesn’t exist, of course, because humans are not perfect, and so we all have to navigate…
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Communication for Couples
Perhaps one of the most clichéd pieces of advice we ever hear is that successful relationships rely on good communication. And yet how many times do we fall out or get into problems because we don’t do enough to promote positive communication? Positive communication means taking an active and continued role in making sure that…
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Are you a Webtrovert?
One of the fun things about dating online is the sheer variety of people that you encounter along the way. Some of them are odd, some of them are quirky. Some are wonderfully warm and some are just asking for a slap in the chops. One of the oddest combinations to have come to light…
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Realising What You Have To Offer
One of the downsides of coming out of a long term relationship can be the temptation to take the blame and be overly critical of yourself. It can be very easy to think that there’s something wrong with you or assume that the end of a relationship means that you are no good at them.…