Codependency and Сounter-Dependency: How to deal with them
codependency
codependency
There are some people who meet their future spouse when they’re 14, sitting in maths class together and avoiding the teacher’s gaze so they don’t have to answer questions about long division. For everyone else, there’s the sticky boys you kissed behind the bins (or under the bleachers if you’re American), the girls who left
This subject is close to my heart, and this post might be a little less light-hearted than what you guys are used to seeing here. Be that as it may, I need to let this out. It might seem counterintuitive, but the way that some people treat their potential or current sexual partners is atrocious.
Honestly, dating can be pretty confusing. Besides working out which apps to use, who to chat to, how many people you can communicate with at the same time, and if you should wait three days before calling (actually, that’s pretty easy: don’t do that), you also have to keep on top of the latest dating
Sometimes you have to admit that things just aren’t working out. For whatever reason, that guy you thought would go the distance has sputtered out, or left you behind. Relationships end for all kinds of reasons and more often than not someone ends up getting hurt. Getting angry isn’t the solution, revenge won’t win him
It seems that not a week goes by without seeing another story about a date gone horribly wrong. With stories of stalking, sexual assault, and occasional murder, it is a grim reminder that the fun of dating apps can sometimes bring about safety concerns. While there are a number of things that users can do
I might be old and jaded, but at a certain point, new dating apps with pointless gimmicks seem tedious. Take Qemistry, a dating app soon to launch in London. My initial annoyance comes from the spelling – any primary-school child will tell you that if you use the letter “Q”, it must be followed by
There are few things, I think, that are more embarrassing than a corporation trying to be cool. I don’t need boohoo.com telling me about hot girl summer, and I don’t want Love Island merch everywhere. “It is what it is” is completely meaningless. Shut up. It’s like explaining slang to your parents who don’t quite
Let’s be straightforward: ghosting sucks. We may have done it and dealt with the lingering feelings of guilt, or we may have been ghosted ourselves, left with a string of unanswered messages and a lack of closure. But there’s almost nobody on the dating scene who hasn’t experienced ghosting at some point. And really, it’s