Communication is an incredible thing. Anthropologists might argue that what sets us apart from other mammals is our inability to shut the fuck up. Social media has meant that we’ve never communicated more. As I write this, I’m discussing dinner with my housemate, a date with my friends in a group chat, and birthday gifts
By a certain point in our lives, we’ve all acquired some baggage. While it varies from person to person, but we all have something, of a different shape, size or weight, that we carry around with us. It might be a failed marriage, infidelity, loss of a loved one, or even abuse. Opening up in
Relationships – or should I say, good relationships – are all about compassion and compromise. You’re a team, and you’re ready to take on the world together. Sometimes, and ideally, before the relationship gets too serious, you need to check on your fellow player and make sure that you’re looking towards the same goals and
Relationship Quizzes Are Always Popular It’s 95% of Buzzfeed’s business model, and it makes sense because people always want to know more about how great they are or how to improve their love life. There are the wacky ones (which Harry Potter couple are you and your boo most like), the ones with absolutely no
Vulnerability is not only for women. I would hope that would be obvious. As a modern feminist, I’m so very, very tired of assigning emotions, actions or roles to genders. Sometimes I’m angry – like when another driver doesn’t use their indicators, or someone tries to make laws about my uterus, which is none of
We’ve all been on bad dates. You don’t need a giant signal from the sky to tell you that this person isn’t your fairytale true love, but you need to make sure that they know this, too, and ideally without causing too much of a scene. With that in mind, here are the best (and
Dating is scary. For some people, the biggest threat is you’ll meet someone really boring and be stuck talking about cryptocurrency whilst you neck a cocktail and then climb out of the bathroom window – if romcoms are to be believed. For other people, especially women and members of the LGBT+ community, a bad date
All happy couples are alike; each unhappy couple is unhappy in its own way. We all know couples who fight all the time, constantly cheat, blame and resent each other, believe in the ‘sunk cost’ fallacy, stay together for the convenience or because of their children or are simply too ground down to bother separating,
Imagine the scene. A hospital ward, beds side by side, children are born simultaneously. The kids are next-door neighbours, perhaps, and share a chaste kiss on the cheek on their (joint) tenth birthday. A few years later, they fall in love, marry and buy a house with a nice golden retriever. This is a couple
Eroticism is fluid, personal, and so much more. Let’s celebrate and explore. Earlier this month, Esther Perel published a thoughtful and interesting reflection on eroticism and how it’s more than just the sexuality you share with a partner – it’s about self-exploration and understanding. Perel posits that we are responsible for turning ourselves on and
