This is Why Breaking Up Hurts So Much

When your heart is breaking, it really can feel like the world around you is crashing down. No pain you’ve experienced before has felt so excruciating or intense. You can’t think, concentrate, eat, sleep or breathe properly. It seems like someone has body slammed into you, leaving you feeling like you’ll never be okay again. You weep, you sob, you…

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Why International Women’s Day Is Actually Really Important

International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th March every year, to celebrate the achievements of women throughout history and across all nations. The past year has been one of #MeToo and #Timesup, which became worldwide phenonmenon. A year in which London Mayor Sadiq Khan described the gender pay gap in the capital as “unacceptable” after he revealed figures showing…

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Why Do Women Fall For Bad Guys?

One of the most used new millennial terms: fuckboy. Any gal who has waded through the swamp of dating knows that in today’s world, the chances of meeting a fuckboy is about the same as walking past a Pret-A-Manger in central London. Fuckboy is the new term for a bad guy: but it’s not just the 90’s ‘bit of a rebel’ kind of bad-boy,…

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15 Simple and Easy Ways to Make your Girl Happy

For some reason, many men are under the impression that it’s really hard to make a woman happy. On the contrary, it’s actually super simple, and there are a few ways which you may not have thought about… Making a woman happy really isn’t as hard as you think. Yes, we’re complex creatures, we have a variety of different personalities,…

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Ask Eve: My Boyfriend Walked Out On Me, But Is It His Depression?

Hi Eve I have just read your article on high functioning depression and feel like I can relate to it. Just before Christmas my boyfriend of 18 months walked out on our relationship completely out of the blue. We were in a blissfully happy relationship. Sadly in October he lost his grandfather very suddenly. It was around this time that…

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“We Were On A Break!” | FRIENDS Case Study: Was Ross In The Wrong?

Recently arriving on Netflix in the UK, the TV show Friends is undergoing something of a revival at the moment. More than a decade after the finale aired (and more than two decades since the show began), the show is still fondly remembered by millions.  One of the most famous plot points on the decade-long will-they-won’t-they storyline of Ross and Rachel’s…

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10 Ways To Survive A Long Distance Relationship

A long distance relationship isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s not for those scared of effort or commitment. It’s emotionally draining, heart-wrenching and ultimately not an ideal scenario for a budding romance. But it can work, and it can be worth it. The biggest learning curve from being in a long distance relationship, is that you shouldn’t have one just because you have…

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Ask Eve: My Boyfriend Is Acting Possessively And I Don’t Know What To Do

Hi Eve, I’ve been with my current boyfriend now for about 8 months, we met on Tinder and things (for the most part) have been going great. In the early few months of being together things were pretty bad, I suffer from depression and he from bipolar, so needless to say, when arguments did happen, they happened big. I love…

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10 Things Every Single 20-Something Should Remember This Valentine’s Day

It’s the day singletons dread. You’ve made it through Christmas and New Year’s. Now here’s the day where vomit-inducing cards line shop windows and little hearts decorate just about everything in sight. It’s the time of bumped up restaurant prices, stupid cuddly toys and a mass of ‘date night with this one’ posts clogging up your usually meme-ridden news feeds.…

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Are We All Scared Of A Happily Never After?

With more singletons in the capital than ever before in history, are we the generation living in fear of a Happily Never After? I read an article the other day, from 35-year old author, Emily Hill. She retold one particularly bad London date (of many) she has experienced. It lasted a brief period, the guy wasnt great and it ended…

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#BEYOUROWNVALENTINE – Loving yourself is a must this Valentine’s day

Valentine’s Day invites us to celebrate the love between two people, making us forget for a moment that the key to successful love is within ourselves!  Valentine’s Day is coming, and the universe insists on celebrating how very loved up we are. Or in reminding us that we aren’t in love, but we were a year ago. Or simply that love…

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20 Ways To Get Through A Breakup Like A Boss

I was super excited to collaborate with my amazingly kind and wonderful fellow dating blogger, Tinderella Worldwide on this post. After originally discussing at the UK Dating Awards 2017, together we have racked our dating blogger brains and come up with some of the top ways to get through a breakup like a complete boss. Breaking up is possibly one…

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It’s Time To Talk: Let’s End The Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness

Today is Time to Talk Day. It’s a chance for all of us to be more open about mental health – to talk, to listen, to change lives. Mental illness still has a massive stigma attached to it, which we as a society are hyper-aware of. Personally, I hate talking about my mental health, especially out loud. But what I’ve…

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Love At First Sight: Is It A Real Thing?

It’s the classic fairy-tale story. Cinderella walks into the room and catches the eye of the prince. His jaw drops. He falls madly, crazily, (implausibly?) in love at first sight. But surely love at first sight is just for cute children’s stories, right? Wrong. New evidence suggests that actually, yes, love at first sight is a real thing… Two unrelated…

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Survive and Thrive: Dating and Being Single – Book Review

Survive and Thrive: Dating and Being Single is so much more than your ordinary self-help book. It’s an empowering step-by-step guide to building resilience, confidence and making the most of being single, loving yourself and learning to not only survive life alone, or after a breakup, but actually thrive and become a better, stronger, more exuberant you. The route to long-lasting…

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Ask Eve: My New Man Wants Me To Throw Away My Sex Toys, But Has His Own

Hi Never Settle I am in a new relationship and everything has been going well… that is until my boyfriend stumbled upon one of my sex toys, and ended up getting really angry about it. He says he absolutely hates them and finds the size of them threatening. I explained they don’t replace sex but every time it comes into…

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Face it… She’s Just Not That Into You

Forget he’s just not that into you, what do you do when you’re not sure the girl you’re chasing likes you, or not?  There are quite a few obvious red flags you need to keep an eye out when pursuing a woman. Woman generally find it harder rejecting men, so how do you know if she’s just not interested? What…

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10 Signs a Guy Is Flirting with You

The world of dating is exciting, confusing and full of games, but how do you know when a guy actually likes you… like that? How can you tell if a guy is flirting with you, or just being nice? Flirting is a pretty fun game we play all the time with people we fancy. It can be pretty blatant, but also…

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Men, Stop Getting Angry When Rejected: She Doesn’t Owe You Anything

Why Do Men Get So Angry At Women When They Are (Nicely) Rejected? It happens more than people realise, and certainly more than women care to admit. At a party, bar, over messaging or dating apps. You’re just having a bit of fun or socialising and a man pays you some attention, maybe even a compliment. Being polite, you accept…

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Ask Eve: The Love Of My Life Has Been In Front Of Me All Along, But Now He’s Taken

  Hi Eve, I’ve had one of those mad realisations that you see in the movies. When the girl is in front of the boy she’s known forever as a friend and realises that, actually, she is meant to be with him. There was always bad timing – one of us or the other would be in relationships. Neither of…

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