RELATED: Being An Only Child Affected My Most Important Parenting Choice Regardless of the reasons, people who are cut off feel shame, confusion, stress, and sometimes even depression and a feeling of being disempowered. This is particularly the case if no explanation is provided for the cutoff. Relatives may cut each other off for months, years, and sometimes even a lifetime with little to no explanation. The following are some of the most frequent reasons why a relative is likely to cut another off or freeze them out of the family fold....

The honeymoon phase fades away as time passes, and the real struggle to sustain and maintain the relationship begins. During these later years, people start to question whether love is still alive in their relationship or marriage. These phases become ever more challenging if one partner isn’t that expressive. However, even the least expressive one shows their love through body language, gestures and actions. When women are in love with their husbands, they show it....

As the youngest child and the only girl, my life alternated from being looked over to being pretty much stalked by my mom because she’s convinced I’m incapable of doing anything on my own other than potentially producing illegitimate children. (Perhaps if she’d taken a break from fawning over my holy First Born Brother, she’d have noticed that I’m really good at things like baking without burning the house down, changing my own tires, and taking birth control pills regularly....

That person could be gone for one day or a few weeks and it can still feel like an eternity. And let me tell you, when you start to miss someone as soon as they leave, you’ve got it bad. Deep love like this means a lot of things; you have a more positive outlook on life, you are willing to try new things (as long as your man does, too), and you start thinking about the future, even if the idea growing old together used to freak you out....

We listen to sweet stories shared by our friends and family because we simply love love. Most of us truly enjoy finding relatable stories on social media, with love captions that validate how we feel about our own love life. RELATED: 72 Short Love Quotes That Explain Everything You Feel If you struggle to find just the right words to describe the current moment, or if you wish you knew how to express your feelings in your own Instagram captions dedicated to that special someone after you’ve been lucky enough to fall in love, say no more!...

When I was a little girl, I always assumed that one day I would magically wind up meeting the man destined to be my husband, and that we would quickly go about the business of getting married. Don’t get it twisted. I didn’t exactly spend every waking second of every waking hour planning my wedding and subsequent marriage. It’s just that I figured that’s what happens when a girl grows up and falls in love....

After all, no one wants to be in a relationship with someone who is so emotionally unstable they’ll explode at any moment. Though we always like to think we can vet them out well, once in a while, a guy will trick even the most jaded dater. I ought to know — it’s happened to me plenty of times. RELATED: 15 Phrases An Emotionally Healthy Guy Will Never Say Thankfully, sometimes you can pick up on the potential danger if you know the subtle warning signs to watch for....

Whether it’s a family member, a long-lost friend, or the one that got away, the universe will send a signal to let you know when that special person is about to return. 15 Signs From The Universe That Someone is Coming Back into Your Life 1. Your intuition tells you they are coming back. Who better to trust than yourself? If you have a sneaking feeling that someone you are missing is returning, believe it....

When you’re frustrated that you’re doing more than your fair share in a relationship, do you feel the need to take action and try to talk the man you’re with into giving more? Sure you do — most women react the same way. And you don’t need me to tell you that most men will resist your efforts. RELATED: 21 Signs He Has Strong Feelings For You That’s because of something I call “The Convincer....

For the believers, the way to attract the perfect man for you is to focus on who you want to be with and the very power of your thoughts will turn your wants into reality. Believe it and you’ll see it. RELATED: 10 Simple Ways To Use The ‘Law Of Attraction’ To Find Your Soulmate However, in my work with smart, high-achieving, and attractive women whose go-to strategy is going after what they want, when they use that same game plan with men, they miss seeing the red lights or the things they don’t want....

Even those of us who are not parents have all had parents, be they present and caring, estranged, alienated, absent, neglectful, abusive, or unknown — and we all have healthy lessons and maybe even lasting damage from childhood that we need to learn to heal to grow from. This requires each of us, mothers and fathers, and even those without children, to understand how to parent — either for their own children or for what is referred to as, “the inner child,” a term based on the Jungian concept of the “eternal child,” and examined by more popular psychologists such as Drs....

For instance, let’s say you and your spouse have been married for five years and are still very much in love. Of course, you have arguments and disagreements, as every couple ultimately experiences. Lately, though, you’ve noticed that you’ve been getting frustrated with each other over the little things. RELATED: Couples In The Healthiest Relationships All Show Their Partners Love In One Specific Way For example, you’re a tidy person and it drives you crazy when your spouse leaves dishes in the sink or clothes lying around....

We’re taught from a young age that this is what men are supposed to like. And this is what women are supposed to like. But if guys like something too much then they’re creepy, desperate, or freaks. And if women like certain things too much, or too little, then they’re labeled as easy, prudish, or any other number of hurtful names. In this minefield of rules, nobody wins. In fact, with all of these apparently black-and-white sexual norms to drown in, we tend to lose ourselves....

Moon Square Venus causes introspection, and oftentimes, when we allow ourselves a good look inside ourselves, we find out just what we can do to improve our lives. When we improve our lives and our lifestyle, we become more attracted to positive energy, which in turn, attracts positive people. RELATED: 3 Zodiac Signs Who Get Rich During Vesta In Scorpio, November 15 - 17, 2021 This is a good time for that, and it falls on November 15....

If we have an issue that we’ve been on the fence about by the end of this transit, we’ll know what to do about that issue. Clarity is big here, and so is the need to make unilateral, and sometimes cold decisions. In love, this tends to be a ‘Ride or Die’ situation, which essentially means “get on this motorcycle and ride with me forever, or get the hell off my lawn, man....

If Mercury in Sagittarius at the 10th degree has any affect on us, it will come to us in the form of discretion. When we talk about discretion, often times we think it means that we keep our thoughts to ourselves. Similar to this kind of thinking we will be doing just that, but the upshot is this: While those thoughts are being kept to ourselves, we will also be analyzing them, working with them; coming up with solutions to problems…and acting on them, when the time is right....

The Moon in Scorpio is continually active. She connects with numerous planets today, showing you that your emotions should be at the center of all you do today. There is a bigger picture, though, that is taking place, and that is really owning what your feelings are so that you can make decisions and choices based on your truth. It is as if the universe has conspired to create an environment where you can no longer lie to yourself....

That’s a dangerous place to be in, as our moves may be precipitous and off base. Say for instance you have a crush on a movie star — during Mercury square Uranus, you might get it into your head that if you think about them, then they might just be thinking of you. While this is an extreme case, it’s the way it goes for this transit; it gives us the idea that we can achieve something that is impossible....

The Moon will be in the zodiac sign of Cancer all day, Venus and Mars are celestial lovers, rarely meeting in the sky. So, everyone will find themselves deep in their emotions. Close relationships and all that matters on the homefront will be greatly felt because these are things that the sign of Cancer rules. But, you Pisces, Cancer, and Aquarius, the Moon in Cancer takes a firm look at your friendships, and the people who you know that feel like family, but aren’t related by blood....

It’s Thanksgiving Week here in the USA and for some, it’s a time for family gatherings and much gratitude. As we all know and can probably agree upon — family gatherings aren’t always the warm and fuzzy affair that we’d like them to be though they most certainly can be wonderful. Sometimes, family is all one needs to be happy, and many believe that if you have your family, you have everything....