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Dating is often described as a precursor to a committed relationship. However, when it comes to human relationships, it is hard to compartmentalize the connection between two people in watertight categories. More often than not, there are gray areas to navigate that can leave you wondering, “Are we in a relationship or just dating?” This can bring along a lot of uncertainty about the future, especially if two people view dating relationship stages differently....

Do you feel there has been an increase in the number of divorce cases over time? Yes, there is a definite increase in the number of cases today. I would say that in the last decade divorce rates – filing of divorce cases – have increased by at least three to four times, if not more. What are the most common reasons for couples approaching the courts for divorce? The most common reason for seeking divorce is cruelty....

I understood that he was trying to do the right thing. Neither do I believe that “no” has to be accompanied by some physical action as specific as a Taekwondo step. In order to be heard and acceded to, no does not have to be spoken in a specific pitch or a delineated tone. “I’m letting you go because I’m such a good man” But what he said seemed to crack from side to side the illusory mirror of an equal relationship....

Whatever be your reasons, the make-a-man-fall-deeply-in-love playbook remains more or less the same. When you want to make a man fall in love with you psychology plays a crucial role. You have to play to the gallery of his innermost emotions and desires to tug at his heartstrings. How exactly? Family therapist and relationship counselor, Manjari Saboo, has the answer. 10 Expert Tips On How To Make A Man Fall Deeply In Love With You To love and be loved – preferably by the same person – are the most primal of human needs....

From advertising, Salman Rushdie slowly traipsed into writing, making it his full-time vocation. His famous novels include Grimus, Shame, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Shalimar the Clown, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet and the groundbreaking Midnight’s Children– which won the Booker Prize in 1981 and catapulted him into fame the world over. Controversy around Salman Rushdie and his women Today he is read in 40 languages and continues to write on themes of transnationalism, religion, magic realism and history....

All those reasons why you should flirt! With your spouse and those charming others! Remember wanting to be noticed and pampered is not a crime. Awaken the giant within You both are stark naked and go about your work in the bathroom without a glance at each other? Sad, isn’t it? Flirt with that hot boy/girl in the party. Then lock your gaze with your partner and caress him softly on his butt, just for two seconds!...

As we all know, every man too likes to be touched and sees it as a next-level advancement to a romantic relationship. But there is more to this ‘skin-sense’ that you can imagine. Don’t believe this? Then you need to learn the science of secret touch dynamics and implement them to spice up your chemistry. The science of touch Touch is the first sense we develop as humans, much before any other senses....

Since your head would already be buzzing with dark thoughts and feelings, you may not be able to devote yourself fully to your friendships or romantic relationships. If your mental health struggles get bad enough, you may even become averse to to the idea of finding love because you simply lack the energy for it. But, with therapy and the right kind of approach, you can soon find yourself on the road to recovery....

If women have some parameters to choose the one they want to marry, the same goes for men as well. Sometimes though, even after women feel ready to take the plunge, men hold back longer. Why is that? And if you are dating a commitment-phobe, then your wait might be forever. Even otherwise, there are a lot of things that go on in a man’s mind before he buys that ring for you....

Around my second year of college I was motivated to lose weight The reason being two pronged: First, I suffered one fracture in the leg in my first year of college, tore the ligament of the same leg in the second and twisted my ankle twice in the same year. It is a known fact that once you hurt your leg, you tend to keep twisting your ankles or hurting the same leg because it goes a little weak....

But now, times are changing and so are the sexual dynamics in a couple. In particular, the sex-escapades of the urban folks have become more vocal and intimate like never before. They are more experimental than ever before and are redefining sexual intimacy to connect with their spouse on a surreal level. But as they cross a certain age, do they reduce the frequency or abandon sex in their life?...

How does one even go about it? How do you figure out what to say when apologizing for cheating? It’s a complex situation to deal with, and we thought it could use an expert’s take. So, we spoke to psychotherapist Gopa Khan (Masters in Counseling Psychology, M.Ed), who specializes in marriage and family counseling, on how to apologize for cheating, and things to do and things not to do when you’re putting yourself and your partner through this very tough experience....

Even more so, when you see people around you have dates lined up six ways from Sunday, get into relationships and even find their happily ever after on the dating platform. Meanwhile, you just can’t get dates on Tinder. You may get swiped right a lot, match with interesting people but then things just fizzle out. Or perhaps your profile just doesn’t get noticed as much as you’d like. Can you get dates on Tinder?...

Superficially, the reason can seem to be cheating, trust issues, falling out of love. When you look deeper, you’d realize that what you’re seeing as the cause is really just a symptom of what was wrong in your relationship. Things break when they’re not glued together properly. The same is true of relationships too. Once you’ve got past that stage, understand that when things fall apart, you feel like you’re falling apart too because as humans, we typically don’t know how to deal with the loss of control....

Now, in my time if you had to breakup, you would be graceful and tell the other person the reason. More importantly, you would take the consequences of the said breakup on the chin. Dealing with the guilt of breaking a heart, talking about it for hours, feeling like the lowest form of life, and suffering for years in guilty silence were a few of the aforementioned consequences. Then came the age of drifting apart and yet remaining friends....

Forget everything that every movie on Romedy Now tells you about never letting go of the one you love. No matter how challenging, it takes maturity to walk away from things that do not sustain you anymore. And working toward a better you sometimes means that you have to say goodbye to those who are not worth fighting for. Because, as Paulo Coelho said, “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello....

We’ve all been there. That person we’ve had a crush on, the one we simply can’t stop preying on our brain no matter how much we try to filter them out. And sometimes, it’s someone who doesn’t reciprocate, someone whom we can’t have, or even worse, someone who has actively broken our hearts. It’s easy, of course, to say, stop thinking about someone who hurt you. You’re worthy of great love and romance and you deserve someone as amazing as you....

Knowing someone inside out is like reading the endless volumes of Harry Potter. You have to put in the hours. But the process is so engaging that once you start, you don’t feel like stopping. It is similar to a jigsaw puzzle – you cannot quite figure it out but you have fun trying. This couple quiz is here to give you a reality check. Before taking the ‘how well do you know your partner’ test, here is a list of some questions you can ask your partner to deepen intimacy:...

The affair is serving a purpose. It is helping me overcome the fear of losing my husband early on life. His father died young and I get the debilitating fear of being alone. Since the affair I have stopped obsessing over my fear and stop nagging my husband with respect to his health. I used to constantly ask him if he has eaten well, exercised or if he is taking rest between work....

I have been married for 6 months. I had a love marriage without my parents’ permission. As days passed I came to know that my husband is not the person whom I used to know. Actually, we had not met frequently because we were living in different cities. I fell in true love that’s why I trusted him and his words. But he was a liar. He told me that he was a teetotaller and abstained from smoking and alcohol....