But let’s say that you just met someone new and felt like you didn’t connect the way you wanted to. Let’s say you were at a party and you noticed someone going out of their way to make sure they didn’t have to engage with you socially. We both know that even your less than perfect personality traits are all part of the magical equation that adds up to you, but the rest of the world might not know that....

We wake up in the morning and make sure to put some color on our lips, and we check in the mirror during the day to reapply. We make sure our lipstick goes with our ensemble before going out. But did you know the shade of lipstick you choose actually says something about your personality type and how others view you? RELATED: I Tried “Clown Contouring” Makeup And It Was An Epic Disaster It’s true....

In writing this essay, it is not my intention to “kick people while they’re down” or malign the hurting and deceased. My goal is simply to share a natural part of the reality of what happens when you’ve gone no-contact with abusive family members and other relatives. RELATED: Man Reacts To Sister Exposing His & Fiancée’s Secret Lover At Their Engagement Party It’s an aspect of “going no-contact” with abusers that is not a fun or popular one to discuss, so I want to start that conversation....

The British socialite, who was recently convicted of sex trafficking charges, was allegedly dumped by her husband who is believed to have moved on with a yoga instructor. Maxwell’s personal life has remained largely discreet throughout the ongoing trial but 2020 court documents did reveal that she was secretly married to an unnamed man. Now, it appears that marriage disolved in what is reported to have been a “confrontational” phonecall....

Mendes and Hitomi Mochizuki were photographed by paparazzi while on a beach doing yoga rituals. The photos showed Mochizuki kneeling in front of the ‘Wonder’ singer until the two were face-to-face, while Mendes, 23, inhaled from a shamanic medicine called Rapé powder, which is a kind of tobacco used in spiritual practice by shamans and tribes in Brazil and Peru. Another photo shows the two sitting across from each other, touching fingers while staring into each other’s eyes....

Gemini is an Air sign ruled by the planet Mercury, so you can expect a whole lot of fun (or scary) surprises, but never a dull moment. Those who are born under this sign seem to have an endless amount of layers to them, and you will constantly have to unravel each layer to get to their center. RELATED: The Best & Worst Personality Traits Of The Gemini Zodiac Sign...

In these situations, it seems as though the dynamics of your still-fresh relationship are suddenly changing overnight, leaving woman after woman wondering what men want and what they are thinking, with no real clue as to how to turn things around and get this guy to fall in love like it seemed he was just about to. RELATED: Why Men Suddenly End Relationships When Women Start Falling In Love When a man suddenly loses interest at this critical stage in romantic relationships, it’s likely that one of a few common scenarios occurred....

I would sit and page through teen clothing catalogs, pretending that my favorite three models were my daughters. Then I’d choose my two sons from an issue of Seventeen or YM, and my husband from People or Vanity Fair. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, the usual. My impossibly beautiful family of seven, ahh it will be perfect. RELATED: Why I Plan To Have A Kid — Even Though I Don’t Want One Within a few years once reality set in (partially), I thought I would have four children....

“See these lines?” The doctor pointed at the several dozen small, spider-web-looking lines covering my left foot. “Those are stress fractures. They’re fully healed, but you can see where each one broke through the bone. Have you ever been treated for stress fractures?” RELATED: The Moment I Realized I Would Never Be Able To Use My Arms Again I shook my head no. I never knew my left foot was riddled with stress fractures....

(Kidding. I don’t love Jane Austen THAT much. Well, okay, I kind of do. But I love my son more. And his real name is definitely not Fitzwilliam.) RELATED: How To Be A Good Mom: 10 Habits Of Great Moms Who Embrace Perfection When I first began thinking about writing a down-to-earth, day-by-day series that would capture everyday life — all right, okay, it’s mommy blogging, I admit it — the biggest hiccup I encountered was that of maintaining my family’s privacy....

When someone says the words “smoke weed,” it conjures images of stoners doing nothing with their lives, sitting on the couch watching endless hours of television and ordering mountains of Taco Bell. Apart from a shared love of Taco Bell on occasion, I can assure you I am nothing like these stoners you imagine. RELATED: 6 Reasons Smoking Weed Will Solve All Your Relationship Problems (Not that there’s anything wrong with stoners!...

In an interview with the New York Times, Lawrence, who married her husband, Cooke Maroney, in 2019, revealed that she started having second thoughts. Jennifer Lawrence explained how she was having commitment anxiety before marrying Cooke Maroney. While the actress was filming her 2019 film “Causeway,” she realized she was beginning to relate to her character’s phobia of commitment. RELATED: The Reason Bradley Cooper & Irina Shayk Broke Up As The Former Couple Spark Reconciliation Rumors “When you don’t fully know yourself, you have no idea where to put yourself,” Lawrence told the New York Times in an interview published on November 2....

Masturbation has so many positives like relieving stress, sexual tension, and body aches, and it can also help you sleep. Self-stimulation helps you stay sexual, even when you’re between partners. There are so many health benefits to masturbation that everybody should be doing it all the time. But what about those women who end their masturbation session by crying for seemingly no reason? Is that normal and healthy? Why do I cry after masturbating?...

These days, getting into a relationship and ending it just after a few months is very common — and that’s not always a bad thing. Unfortunately, sometimes people are in a hurry to get into a relationship and the end up in a toxic situation. The societal expectation that women fall for “bad boys” can bring horrific consequences. Some women are indeed likely to fall for abusive and unhealthy men, as if it is considered normal or part of life....

I do this thing where I focus on the little things a lot. It probably means I’m just detail-oriented or analytical which I know are both true about myself and can sometimes be pluses during those annoying job interviews. However, I believe that the little things in life add up. The little parts of our society come together more often than we think to send us messages. These little messages end up adding up to create a whole picture, a whole belief really....

After all, their partner still wants sex, so they should too, right? But, the thing is, if they don’t want to have sex and prefer to be celibate, there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with them. RELATED: You Need To Think About These 4 Things To Figure Out What’s Really Killing Your Sex Life There’s nothing wrong with having no sex drive. A sex drive isn’t this isolated biological mechanism in your body that works one day and doesn’t the next....

Do you ever meet a guy who is so amazing at the start, charismatic, charming, and so into you. But as soon as you get hooked, he starts becoming controlling and critical. Why you attract such selfish guys? The first step is to understand why you are attracting selfish people, like narcissists, in the first place. After that, you can begin to change your strategies for finding love. RELATED: 6 Unmistakable Signs You’re In Love With A Highly Sensitive Man While your pattern of attracting selfish men may leave you feeling hopeless about your prospects for lasting love, the truth is that you can break this pattern by developing new dating strategies....

Unfortunately, what we usually forget is that “letting go” doesn’t necessarily mean “falling out of love” with someone; learning how to let go means no longer wrestling with your feelings about him or her at all. Like the old saying says, “Holding resentment is like letting someone live in your mind rent-free,” any emotion you choose to engage in takes up your energy and your time. RELATED: Once You Let Go Of These 7 Things, You Can Be Happy Again Whether you’re still angry at another person or you’re mad at yourself for still thinking about an ex, it doesn’t matter....

I have a fair number of female friends, and sometimes dating is hard as a result. I’m not Casanova — I write on the Internet for a living, for Christ’s sake — but my girlfriends often get jealous of my girl-gendered friends. They think that if I’m hanging out with a female friend, I’m probably having sex with them. RELATED: What It Means When A Guy (AKA Your Boyfriend) Has A Lot Of Female Friends If I were having sex on the side, this article would be titled something like “How To Tell If Your Ugly Boyfriend Has Somehow Figured Out How To Sleep With More Than One Person....

One pregnant woman believes that dating other people has made her marriage with her husband stronger. Alexis Watts, 28, from Central Valley, California, met her current husband, Christopher, at a swingers event after her first marriage fell apart. Swinging is something that married couples or single people consent to where they look for multiple sexual partners in recreation. RELATED: 7 Things Swinging Taught Me About Marriage “Something was missing” from her first relationship, so when Watts met 35-year-old Christopher, they had both agreed to keep their relationship open and date other people....