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3 Top Reasons Men Reject You and What You Can Do about Them

Most of us are familiar with the sinking feeling of getting rejected. It’s a feeling no one likes.

Unfortunately, dating means that you will get rejected quite often. But, if you want to find the right person, then you need to understand that it does not usually happen the moment when you stick your toe in the dating pool and start dating again. Finding the right match can take a while and it helps a great deal if you can manage any feelings of rejection rather than take it personally, get too d...

How Hidden Power and Influence Can Help Us Understand the Gates Divorce

By now, you probably heard already that Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates are getting divorced.

Divorces can be incredibly painful even when both parties agree it’s the best solution. Having every gory detail plastered on every media outlet can make things even more difficult than they already are.

Nobody really knows what goes on behind closed doors in a marriage and we can’t tell for certain whether media reports are accurate. I can only speculate about the reasons for their divorce...

The Best Time for Dating Reentry Is Now. Here’s How to Do It

Dating during a global pandemic does not seem like the safest thing in the world, so a lot of people have put their love life on hold for a while.

And that makes a lot of sense: when experts tell us the safest thing we can do to protect ourselves is to keep our distance from others, that puts even your love life into a different perspective. To a certain extent, all of our lives have been placed on hold, but if we haven’t gone through the experience of a tragic loss or facing the disease head-on...

It’s Not You! 5 Modern Dating Pitfalls That Make It Harder to Find Love

The great love stories we grew up listening to has made us romanticize toxic beliefs about dating and relationships. We end up believing that love is something that happens naturally, but the older we get, we realize that modern dating is not working for many of us. We often feel lost without a compass to guide us. Even the guides in the dating world can give you conflicting advice, which just makes the process more confusing and heartbreaking.

But, here’s the thing: If you are struggling to fin...

Why Aging Is Not Your Enemy: 5 Significant Advantages to Getting Older

Years ago, feminist pioneer Betty Friedan said, “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Unfortunately, rather than embrace her words, many people today dread the aging process.

Our culture is obsessed with youth and beauty. Instead of being happy to just look their best, women get injections at the first sign of wrinkles and they do it at increasingly younger ages. Americans spent greater than $16.5 billion in cosmetic plastic surgery and fillers in 2018. The res...

Sex Offenders Are Using Dating Apps: Here’s How to Stay Safe

With the increasing popularity of online dating, it’s worth discussing a rather gruesome topic: the presence of sex offenders on these sites and apps. Some of these platforms have stated they plan to make it possible for people to run a background check on their online dates if you have their last names and phone numbers. Basically, sex offenders have little to no barrier to signing up for the free version of these apps and platforms, but if you have a paid-version account, you could run such ba...

5 Fun Ways Being Playful Can Help You with Dating and Relationships

The way your potential partner perceives you is influenced by a lot more than the way you look. While looks can have a say in the immediacy of chemistry, there are plenty of other factors that have a strong say as well.

In many cases, troubled relationships can be improved by simply putting in the effort to decrease tension and add some humor. When you have the ability to be playful, you essentially have an amazing social skill that can be leveraged in virtually any form of relationship and situ...

How to Overcome Your Need for Perfection So You Can Feel Good Enough

It takes a lot of work to realize that the pursuit of perfection is futile. That’s mainly because no one is (and will ever be) perfect. However, some people don’t accept that fact. And even if they do, they still may want to be perfect.

What’s wrong with striving for perfection, you may ask? Isn’t it healthy and desirable to strive to be successful and overcome obstacles?

Yes, as long as you do not demand that you achieve perfection.

When your standard is perfection, you are being too hard on yo...

5 Valuable Lessons You Can Learn from the Pain of Breakup or Divorce

No one gets married thinking that divorcing might be a serious possibility. But, when you look at the numbers, you realize that divorce is quite common in America. About 40-50% of couples are divorced.

If you are one of them, then you may see your divorce as a failure. But, another perspective is to see divorce as a learning experience. After all, many of us learn things the hard way.

Just think about all the times that you were too stubborn to take any advice from your friends or family. Or the...

Getting Back in the Game: 5 Great Reasons to Consider Video Chat Dating

Dating is hard. Dating in the times of Covid is grueling. Perhaps this is why many people decided to put their love lives on hold until things get a bit better. And, understandably so: the thought of coming down with COVID-19 is frightening, and all of us should make health a top priority right now.

Although being masked and socially distant may make romance feel almost impossible, it doesn’t mean that you should stop dating.

Online dating and video chats can make it possible for you to safely s...