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Breaking up is never easy. But as painful as a breakup might be, it’s better than dragging out a relationship past its expiry date. Holding on to a relationship that’s not working out, harms both you and your partner. If one of you is not happy, then neither of you can be happy. Sometimes it’s just better to let go and try to move on. How To Know It’s Time To Break Up With Someone You Love We’ve all been fed the ‘love overcomes all obstacles’ theory....

Whether you take a long bath, meditate, or just take a walk around the block, make sure you take some time for you. Finally, don’t be afraid to be alone. Embrace your alone time, and enjoy the peace and quiet. These 13 self date tips will help you date yourself, and you’ll soon find that you’re happier and more content than ever before. What Does It Mean To Date Yourself?...

People of all genders can indeed commit adultery. But most studies and surveys on the topic show that male partners tend to cheat more frequently than partners of other genders. However, no matter the gender of the partners, it can be a devastating discovery for the cheated partner and a tough and guilt-ridden journey for the one who cheated. With the help of clinical psychologist Devaleena Ghosh (M.Res, Manchester University), founder of Kornash: The Lifestyle Management School, who specializes in couples counseling and family therapy, we try to understand the complexities of infidelity and what a relationship needs for recovering from an affair after a breach of trust of such monumental proportions....

Research in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that on average, millennials have 8 partners before they settle down. This might not be true for every person reading this but the odds of someone finding ‘the one’ in their first relationship are pretty low. Not everyone gets to marry their high-school sweetheart and you know it. We’re saying this because it’s important for you to realize that you’re not the only one asking yourself over and over again the same question: Is she the one?...

None of us can claim to be completely transparent with our partners. We all have our fair share of white lies, told to maintain peace and avoid uncomfortable conversations. But it’s important to draw that line between an impromptu prosocial lie and a series of carefully fabricated lies and make it a way of life. If you make a habit of it, there is a good chance that you will be left lamenting, “I lied and ruined my relationship....

Financial betrayal is a kind of betrayal that plagues couples as much these days as betrayal due to extramarital affairs. Being betrayed in a relationship by someone you love is like being stabbed in the back. In such a scenario, you don’t know how to cope with betrayal in a relationship and you struggle to get back on your feet. Mila and Adam were a happy couple. They resided in the suburbs of Columbus with their two kids but their world changed when Adam’s credit card overspending ravaged their relationship....

Cheating happens more often than we think. According to research, a little over 46% of respondents in a monogamous relationship said they had affairs. And one in four of these people said they cheated and admitted to their partner. But please know this, even if your girlfriend is cheating on you, it doesn’t always imply that it’s the end of the road for your relationship. If you’re wondering what’s up with her and cannot put your finger on what’s wrong, if the thought “I think my girlfriend is cheating but I can’t prove it” comes to mind, we know the anxiety that can bring....

Whatever your plans are for the month – joining a queer community for volunteer work, organizing a rainbow t-shirt design contest, or simply throwing a party at home to binge-watch LGBTQ TV series – wearing and sharing pride bracelets would be a remarkable gesture. “Will I be assumed to be a gay or lesbian wearing the LGBTQ pride bracelet?” you may ask. Well, no. First, the umbrella term embraces bisexuals, transgenders, and questioning people not just gays and lesbians....

Well, we’ve got you covered. With insights from counseling psychologist and certified life-skills trainer Deepak Kashyap (Masters in Psychology of Education), who specializes in a range of mental health issues, including LGBTQ and closeted counseling, we decode the difference between being in love and loving someone. What Is Love? The Psychology Behind It Ask a poet and they would write you a poem about the meaning of love. Ask a mathematician and they will probably come up with an equation to explain the feeling....

Liking someone means you enjoy their company. If we go by love vs like psychology, liking is almost a stepping stone to the process of loving someone though it is not mandatory to reach that stage with everyone you like. For instance, Tia, a landscape architect, shares, “I had started to like a guy from work and then eventually developed similar feelings toward my roommate, Alice, but I was confused....

He has schizophrenia and has no sense of privacy… We happened to see a psychologist after one year of my marriage. That doctor confirmed that he is a schizophrenic. His mother who heard this news from the doctor returned home and created a big fight between me and my husband. Living with someone with schizophrenia is not easy. Due to this nature, he will listen to every rubbish his parents and brother tell him....

Oedipus is distraught with this revelation and pieces together his side of the story. Oedipus had escaped from his home after listening to a similar prophecy, killed a man with whom he entered into an argument (his father, Laius), landed in Thebes where he solved a riddle by the Sphinx and became the king. As was the custom, he wed queen Jocasta and begot children with her. Unwittingly, Oedipus killed his father, married his mother and had children with her, thereby fulfilling the prophecy....

Sujoy, you certainly wear many hats as an interdisciplinary artist… You are an ideator, conceiving and presenting different cultural programmes; an elocutionist; an actor, showcasing your talent on stage and in films like the highly acclaimed Bengali film Belaseshe. You are also credited to be the first male to read the Vagina Monologues… I am a playwright. I wrote the semi-autobiographical one-act play Happy Birthday and essayed the role of Rony Das, the protagonist....

It is also pivotal for fine-tuning you and your partner to each other’s weaknesses that may pose a threat to the success of the marriage. Believe Gillian Flynn when she wrote, “Marriage is compromise and hard work, and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.” If you’re on the threshold of starting your marital journey, it pays to understand what is premarital counselling and its benefits to gain perspective about how your relationship can benefit from it....

Jealousy is a mental uneasiness which seeds from the fear of unfaithfulness. It is a quite normal and common ingredient of marriages. If doses are manageable and mild, it can be a positive force in a relationship by reminding a couple not to take each other for granted. However, it can be toxic when it turns into obsession. It can only be healthy when expressed honestly without jumping to an irrational conclusion or accusing a partner without any concrete background....

Can you survive an affair? Yes you can but rebuilding trust is a tough job. You not only need to help your spouse to heal from your betrayal, you need to do a lot of soul searching after infidelity. There are stages of coping with infidelity and going through those stages can prove to be painful. When you see the distrust in your partner’s eyes after every call you get, every text you smile at or you are late in getting home for 20 minutes, it could make you feel awful....

For those of you who are catching up with this series here, I suggest reading the previous parts before you read this. My wife Shweta and I are a working couple. We embarked on a new adventure with a close couple friend, Sharad and his wife Swati, with whom we used to share terrific chemistry. We went on a weekend vacation to Ooty with them where we swapped partners for the night....

This is affecting relationships and mental wellbeing not only of the woman but also her family. A recent article indicated that there is an increase in divorce petitions being filed in the Family Court and averages 22 petitions daily. Another article quoted Lawrato receiving 60% of all daily calls related to divorce matters and Lawyered receiving a 20% spike in divorce cases since the lockdown. Some of the reasons quoted by experts for the divorce petitions are the rising standards of expectations from each other, lack of time for the partner and lack of communication between the couple....

Some love and aren’t loved back. Some lose love. Some give up on love and settle for lust — swiping right on everything that moves on their screen so at least they don’t have to return to an empty home at night. But, again, this access to a pool of prospects — be it IRL or online — hasn’t always existed for everyone. Take the LGBTQIA+ community for example. For years, we frequented gay bars and met up with friends of friends of friends — our access severely limited not just by the fear of discrimination but also by physical distance and lack of ways to bridge that....

Often misinterpreted and multi-layered with meaning, this system of communication with emojis has helped introverts smoothly avoid conversation and extroverts illustrate their already overflowing rush of words. These could be the kissing emoji, the heart emoji, or the blowing kiss emoji. The options are endless. Emojis have made life colorful and painful at the same time, as your upended smiley might be construed as torture by hanging upside down instead of abstract expression of cuteness....