When you’ve been in the dating game for quite some time, you may notice that some guys can fit into certain categories. And we’re not just talking about whether they’re good guys or bad guys. We’re talking about some of the usual archetypes of guys that women may find themselves dating… The Types of Guy when Dating… #1 The Romantic He…
Love is amazing and relationships are fantastic. But what happens when things start to go awry and you’re not entirely sure why? What are the seven ways to successfully ruin your relationship, and lose the one you love? While there is a number of ways to ruin a relationship, the following seven are by far the worst (and most…
You’re at a stage in your relationship where you’re at a cross-roads. You start googling ‘how do I know if this relationship is right for me?’, or wondering what it’d be like to be single… You see website posts which repeatedly tell you to never settle for anything less than what you deserve 😉. Then you start to question…
Leaving university is hard. Three or four years spent developing yourself, your friends, improving your education and mostly – having fun. You spend your days relaxing, studying and seeing friends, going out, having flings… Then it’s over and reality hits. You move back home to your parents. Or you move to a new city cause there aren’t enough jobs where…
So you’re seeing someone. Someone realllly nice. And really attractive. And, well, you’re head over heels. You’ve been dating for a while, and you think it’s going well, right? But you can’t help the lingering questions in the back of your mind: Does he like me too? Is he serious about me? Will he ever commit to me? Your…
How To Know When Your Relationship is Over – New Vlog! Women and men have been doing it for centuries: literally doing whatever it takes to hold onto a relationship until we reach the point of hating, hurting and hardly speaking, all because love is supposed to conquer all. We believe that if we feel any love at all for our…
Being in a relationship (when right) is brilliant. But sometimes it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. If we’re really honest and self-reflexive, sometimes we women can be tricky. As a partner you may get mixed signals, get nagged, or moaned at. You may say something that was ‘wrong’, but you’re not really sure why. You may be told that your…
Last week, I read an article on the BBC about the pill by the Deputy Editor of The Debrief, Vicky Spratt. As I scanned the first few lines of the post, I started to feel an overwhelming sense of familiarity with her story. It was a story which was almost word-for-word the same as my own. The experience Vicky was describing…
Being cheated on. It’s one of the biggest hot-topics for debate in the world of dating, relationships and love. Do you break up instantly with the cheater? Do you get over it? If it happened months or years ago, can you forgive? Has the whole relationship been a lie? Essentially, being cheated on leads not only to a heart-melt overload…
Breaking up is reallllllllly shit. As much as everyone is telling you you’ll be okay, you’ll heal with time, you’ll find someone better/more amazing – dealing with the time until that point can be a huge battle. Firstly, if you’re fresh out of a break-up, check out my post, What To Do Immediately After A Break Up and once you…
So today, 11th November is Singles’ Day. Heard of it? So, Singles’ day is as festival widespread amongst young Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud to be single. The date, 11 / 11 is chosen as the number 1 represents the individual who is alone, and the main tradition is to treat yourself (um, yes…
Whether it was your decision or not, a breakup can be really really heart-crunchingly hard to get over. The cliché goes: time will heal all, but what do you do on the day of, or days directly after a breakup? If you’re fresh out of a break-up, do THIS right away: Cut all ties Delete their number, delete them off…
So this evening I received the exceptionally exciting news that I have been shortlisted for the 2016 Cosmopolitan Influencer Awards, as Best Sex & Relationship Influencer. Honestly, when I first saw the email I couldn’t contain my joy. Stood on the overground, with my head in the armpit of a very hot and bothered stranger, bumbling along towards Homerton station,…
I recently purchased a book which changed not only my love life, but also impacted my research on Love Psychology so dramatically, I thought it absolutely necessary to spread the word. ‘Attached‘ by Dr Amir Levine & Rachel Heller is compelling, groundbreaking and really has changed my life. The book focuses on how to identify your attachment style in order to…
When you break up with someone you’ve been with for a long time, it can be really really difficult. You’ve gone from sharing everything with your best friend, to having lost the person you expected to spend the rest of your life with. Some people thrive when they become newly single after a large period of time in a relationship, but…
Feel like you’re constantly pining after someone who is just out of your reach? You’re chasing and chasing, yet they never seem to let you in. Sometimes you think you’re close to being with them, then out of the blue – it’s all pulled from under your feet. You’re fighting for their attention, their time, their love. You pretend you’re…
All good couples fight. Well, they at least disagree. They get irritated with each other now and again. But the question is: How often do serious clashes happen? How frequently do you find yourselves getting annoyed and getting in a bad mood with one another? The 80/20 Theory Last month, Glamour Magazine published an article about the 80/20 rule – and no, it…
This is a post which is long overdue. Over the last two years, I have posted about a variety of subjects, all of which morphing into a dating and relationship blog. Pretty obviously, the nature of this blog is to talk, discuss and overcome issues within relationships, dating and learning to love yourself. However it was only recently that someone…
Panic Attack noun – A sudden overwhelming feeling of acute and disabling anxiety I was going to write a post about personality types and how they affect our choices and ways in which our lives differ… However whilst thinking about the very post, I’m overcome with an overwhelming sense of drowning. Breathing is becoming harder and my legs are turning to…
Sometimes, even in the best relationships, we make mistakes – we’re only human after all. We mess up, do stupid things, regret (or don’t regret) the things we do which ultimately hurt the people closest to us. With different levels of patience, forgiveness and ability to understand, when it comes to matters of the heart, how far should we go to…
