You love to be in love. Can anyone blame you? When you fall in love, everything looks, smells and feels better. Your usual issues that fill your mind and stress you out suddenly don’t feel so bad. Love is fun, and so easy and tempting to fall into quickly, because it makes life seem easier. RELATED: What True Love Means, According To A Therapist Until it makes life harder, which it almost always does when you fall in love too quickly with the wrong guy....

Wanting to tap into your inner diva and mastering the art of seduction to sexy music is totally natural (not to mention incredibly sexy). Foreplay is not only just a fun part of initiating sex, but it can actually be an incredible time to bond you to your partner — and what better way than by turning your man on by learning how to give a lap dance with the sexiest movements your hips can offer?...

You are the person that finds yourself helping a family member with mental illness or disability, or simply an aging parent. As the steady one, it is part of your privilege to help those who are not doing so well. If you are in this situation, you might be overwhelmed and ask yourself, “Yes, but how much do I give? Is there a line that is just too much?” RELATED: Why You Should Never Tell Someone To ‘Get Over’ Their Mental Illness...

Gone are the late-night exchanges, the person to walk into a party with, and the one who understands your family dynamics. This friend may even have felt like family, hanging around your house for years. In fact, you may miss this friend too! Your teen may have had this friend for many years, or maybe this friend is fairly new on the scene but has become a BFF — regardless, sometimes even the closest friendships can come to an end (especially if they are toxic....

This is not so easy when it comes to our own decision-making. RELATED: What True Love Means, According To A Therapist So, how do you know if the guy you are dating is a keeper? Here are 3 ways to find out if he’s right for you. 1. Know what you want in a relationship. Unfortunately, most of us don’t take the time to sit peacefully with ourselves to create a clear picture of what we want....

Criticism in marriage and relationships is an easy pattern to fall into. People get frustrated, tired, angry, and even bored with the “same old story” they’re writing in their marriages. Pet peeves and irritations turn into global accusations of “always” and “never,” setting up the accused to be defensive. And defensiveness — like criticism, contempt, and stonewalling — is a predictor of a marriage’s demise. There are many reasons why criticism in marriage is considered one of the greatest predictors of divorce....

Students and energy healing clients always ask me how to do it. Just as often, they tend to be quite surprised when I tell them. It turns out that learning how to raise your vibration looks a lot like how you’d pursue a healthy, clean life with adequate self-care in your daily routine. RELATED: Here’s How To Raise Your Vibration To Attract The Life You Want (From The Inside Out)...

Many of us have been through multiple breakups that can leave us thinking about someone even when we don’t want to, especially at night, when we’re most vulnerable. It’s easy to fall prey to insomnia out of fear that you might have yet another dream about your ex. You can feel exhausted, overwrought and unsure of how to move on. RELATED: 15 Ways To Get Someone Out Of Your Head If you can’t stop thinking and dreaming about an ex, and you’re ready to move on to peace and acceptance, here’s how to leave them behind, along with the past they have you stuck in, night after toss-and-turning night....

Figuring out how to tell if someone is your soulmate might seem impossible. But that one special someone is out there, you just have to find him or her — and a simple math equation might be all you need to tell if you already have. TikToker megachloe69 posted a video about how to use math to find out if you and your significant other are soulmates. TikTok Soulmate Test RELATED: If He Does These 24 Things, Congrats!...

It’s even romanticized in pop-culture. We are overwhelmed with memes like “it makes me feel loved when (s)he gets jealous,” “my guy/girl can’t have any (fe)male friends,” and, “my girl can only have three male friends: the father, the son, and the holy ghost.” But there’s a different type of toxic jealousy: ownership. Just because you’re dating, engaged, or even married to someone, it doesn’t mean you own them. And even if you think you are just being protective of your relationship, it’s not a justifiable action....

If you want to know how to get your ex-boyfriend back, one of the most talked about and effective of these is the “no contact rule,” used after a breakup. What is the ’no contact rule’ and how do you use it? The no contact rule is a concept that involves total separation. The way to make no contact work is simple: After your failed relationship ends, you stop all communication with your ex for a certain period of time....

In her testimony were concerning details of Trump’s alleged behavior in the lead-up and on the day of the riots. The testimony is already being labeled an indictment of the entire Republican party. But some devoted MAGA supporters still have not relented in their defense of their disgraced leader. Trump supporters have been defending the former president against Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims. After Hutchinson delivered her devastating testimony, MAGA supporters took to social media immediately to attack either Hutchinson, the left, her testimony, democrats, or anything else under the sun that was in opposition to Trumpism....

There was no white space on his ring finger where a wedding band might’ve been. I let him off real easy. I didn’t want blood all over my bitten fingernails. That is how stupid I felt for becoming yet another “The Other Woman” for an afternoon. I let a man think all I was worth was the two candy bars he rushed into a Hess station to purchase and then later found out, while we were kissing like teenagers in the back seat of a car, that he was wedded to a woman he called a “nag” and was probably still married to her....

Just as I expected, the other lady is younger and cuter than I am. Many jealous women remain silent, tolerating their husband’s affection for someone else while dying a slow, painful death within. I am not one of these women. Never good at hiding my emotions — try as I might — I confront the issue head-on. RELATED: 5 Ways To Forge A Life-Long Bond With A Stepchild You Don’t Always Like...

He would hurt our children to hurt me. He had warned of this day. He said if I ever left him he would make sure there was no money and I would work for the rest of my life. RELATED: 3 Under-The-Radar Types Of Abusive Relationships To Watch Out For The man who owned the jewelry store walked from behind the counter. He met me face to face. His compassion was one of a family member rather than a business owner....

You might think that this living, breathing clothes hanger must live a glamorous life. But contrary to public belief, the life of a model is fairly mundane. We go to castings, attend photoshoots, walk the runway, go to fittings, and work out. It’s a career and we treat it as such. We’re expected to be professionals and we expect people who work with us to be professionals. RELATED: How To Know If You’re A Victim Of Sexual Harassment At Work (& What To Do Next) Well, that wasn’t the case this particular time....

There’s something that I’ve been dying to tell you the past few years and I haven’t been able to. I could, but I am too afraid. I give subtle hints, but I can’t tell if you can read between the lines of what I’m trying to convey. What’s so funny about this is I don’t think I ever thought it would be you. When I first met you, I immediately thought “no, nothing will happen, he’s too different....

I am a sucker for love, so let’s start there. I love love — I love people in love, people who love their lives, love their kids, love their pets. Anything that has to do with love makes me very happy. Heck, I love the word “love.” I admire those who find it and stay committed to it; those who find it within themselves, and those who find it in a career....

During my senior year, I boarded a plane to South-East Asia and spent four months living with a stranger. I hadn’t seen mom since I was 10. Everything leading up to that moment had been surreal. Dad had magically found mom’s little black book. The next day we talked on the phone. “This is your mother,” the voice said. Suddenly she was there, embracing me fervently at arrivals. … My earliest memories are a blur of exuberant dinner parties, dusty construction sites, and foreign nannies....

He can say the wrong thing and you can forgive him quickly. He can struggle and question his direction and you don’t fall into despair. He can be your partner and your friend because he does not have to be your savior." -Lysa TerKeurst, Am I Messing Up my Kids? … and Other Questions Every Mom Asks I have read those words over and over again. I’ve read them both in my head and aloud hoping that the repetition would result in each of those words embedding in my memory forever....