Category: Relationships
How Can a Breakup Empower You
Few events in life can be as earth-shattering as a bad breakup. While some lucky people seem to have their soulmate dropped conveniently into their lap about the time that hormones start flying, most of us will go through at...
The Art of Dating in the 21st Century
As I was sitting in a local dessert shop with my older sister and grandmother, we started to ask her how she and our late grandfather met seventy years ago. As she tells her story with stars in her eyes,...
How to Create an Intimate Moments Using Your 5 Senses
With so many deterrents in a fast-paced life, sometimes sex becomes that thing yearned for but infrequently actualized. So, when the time is finally right, why not get animalistic? Not (necessarily) wild and out of control, but most animals tend...
The Difference Between Neediness and Persistence
In the show Californication, Hank Moody is a womanizing author who can't seem to let go of his ex-wife, Karen. Whenever they see each other, he always tries to kiss her, flirt with her, and get her back. No matter...
Falling Out of Love Feels Good
It’s funny. Ironic. How things pan out. Questions spiral in your mind. And the thoughts. The feelings. They crash into you and then they flee. Ghosts. Fragments. Pieces of what was. Pieces of what could never longer be. I’m talking about...
Triangular Theory of Love: Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment
The “Triangle of Courtesy” Hiking Sign Has a New Friend Yale psychologist Robert Sternberg described consummate love or “true love” as a perfect triad of the following three components- passion, intimacy, and commitment. And any partial components result in different...
Modern Courtship is Destroying Everything
Science says: Dating is hard!!! (Surprising no one at all) Tell me if this sounds familiar: You go out with someone, and you have a lovely time; there's a connection, and you want to see where this rabbit hole leads....
The Art of Rebounding: Warm-ups, Skills, and Moves.
Like any sport, rebounding requires warm-ups, skills, and moves. Here I will highlight one example of a routine with the wins, mishaps, and the machinery involved. Intro Understand the basic terminology: Merriam Webster- to spring back on or as if...