What Is Taking So Long?

If the question is how long you should wait before moving toward marriage in your relationship, my answer is that I don’t really care how long you wait. There is no magic time limit that guarantees success or failure. In fact, the amount of time has very little to do with whether you should move forward. ...

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Suspect An Affair? Don't Turn Into A Spy

"We are never so vulnerable as when we trust someone. But paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."  — Walter Anderson One of the fundamental problems with falling in love is that, by nature, we are so infatuated we have a difficult time tapping into our ...

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A Crack in the Foundation: The Effects of Infidelity on a Relati

“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.” —Katherine Anne Porter What would you do if your partner had an affair? In a new relationship, everything is perfect and exciting and smells good. You are full of passion and hope. You just ...

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The Love Delusion: Imagining connection where there is none

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." —unknown Some people see connections everywhere. They perceive feelings and relatively insignificant interactions and events in the world to be signs of significant meaning—signs that something is ...

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Are You In Love with a Criminal?

“The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others, but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires.” —Edmund Burke   Beware of Mr. Wonderful. Really? But isn’t that the very thing that all women are looking for? A man who ...

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