Category: Relationships

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Relationships
Laurel Alper

A Little Secret That Can Improve Your Relationships

You may have been told in the past that you are a sensitive person, and in a lot of occasions that is meant in a detrimental sense and you may think the same, that being sensitive is a negative trait to have. Well, there can be negatives but being sensitive can help improve your relationships.

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Relationships
Laurel Alper

Being Caring Can Have a Negative Impact on Your Relationships

Empathy is the ability to compassionately feel others’ feelings and empathise with them. To ‘walk in their emotional shoes’. While empathy can be wonderfully helpful, it can also cause you to make mistakes that can hurt your relationships and lead to toxic/unhealthy ones. One of these mistakes is becoming a people pleaser. What is a

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Relationships
Laurel Alper

Dating Tips for Widows and Widowers

When you’ve lived through the heartbreak of losing your partner then even the idea of dating can be unthinkable. But for many, finding love a second time around comes to be an important part of life – whether you plan it or not. There are so many feelings of doubt and even guilt to contend

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Relationships
Laurel Alper

Why Do People Stay in or Go Back to Toxic Relationships?

I am going to split this piece into a few pointers starting with why people go back to abusive relationships and then a piece about how the abusers try and get the abused to go back, and then even defend the abuser’s behaviour.  According to a recent survey, one in four women and one in

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Relationships
Laurel Alper

Are You the Toxic Partner in Your Relationships?

Some people will say that easy and healthy relationships are hard to come by and sustain. But why would that be the case? Well, it is probably because they are used to attracting and being attracted to the types of relationships that keep them stuck in the same pattern or cycle of something that is

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