couple falling out of love after infidelity

Your heart sank when you saw his message. “There is something I need to tell you.” After that, you can hardly concentrate on anything at work. His words sent a chill down your spine despite your best effort to prepare for the worst. “I slept with someone else.” You freeze, feeling your accelerating heartbeat. Suddenly your […]

how to stop thinking about someone

A couple of years ago, I thought I found the one. The guy was intelligent, funny, kind; he basically checked off every box on my list. When it didn’t work out, I took it hard. I spent half a year ruminating on what went wrong in the relationship and refusing to accept that I wasn’t

lost love poems

In the immortal words of Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Whether you have experienced separation, divorce, or bereavement, it can be hard to believe this when mourning the end of a relationship. However, it can be therapeutic to reflect on love lost. Here

how to get over a guy

He broke up with you. Now you are in a constant state of sadness, thinking about that guy but not being able to have him. You torture yourself with questions: “What if I had done something differently?” “Maybe it’s all my fault?” It’s time to redefine your self-worth and start looking forward to a positive

young man with phone thinking if he should stop texting a girl

Feel like you’re the one who is always texting first? Growing bored texting her when she doesn’t text back? Or maybe you’re assuming she’s no longer interested in texting you? If you are constantly wondering, “Should I always text her first?” you might also be asking yourself when you should stop texting a girl. But

what to say to the other woman

If you are reading this article, I think I can guess how you feel. After you found out that your partner had been cheating on you with the other woman, you probably have a permanent knot in your stomach, and an ache in your heart. Your emotions keep on changing like the wind: angry, sad,

divorce

Going through a breakup or divorce can be devastating to your well-being, especially if it’s still fresh. There are many different ways that you can go about coping with it and handling it. You can drown your sorrows in drugs or alcohol (not recommended), eat a bucket of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (if you

heartbreak

The silence is the worst part. After any relationship ends, it will feel like you go through every feeling, and my goodness, does it hurt. The shock, anger, grief, brief bouts of positivity, and hopefulness are all feelings you will, at some stage, experience. Then just when you think you have made it, a memory

feelings

Feelings are like colds. You catch them and oh boy have I caught them. But unlike a cold, you cannot just take two pills and sleep it off. This is much more complicated and harder to figure out. If you have been single for a long time like me, you become somewhat immune to feelings.

toxic relationship

A normal relationship can have their good moments and their bad moments. When they are good, you feel like you can conquer the world with your partner. Yet a bad relationship can resemble a car wreck and have disastrous effects on you and your partner. Couples will fight. It can be a sign of a

heartbroken

Everyone has felt a loss in their lifetime and had indentations made to their heart. But what if you were the one who left somebody heartbroken? Do you truly realize what you have done to the person you were once intimate with? Do you know how you made them feel? Do you truly realize the

Broken heart

Uh oh, it has happened again. Maybe you didn’t see the heartache coming, or maybe you did and hoped and prayed that you were reading it wrong. We are all familiar with the emotional wounds that result from a love relationship that doesn’t make it. As human beings, we all want to find love and

breakup songs

Want to help ease the pain of a recent breakup? Are Beyonce and Taylor Swift’s most empowering songs not helping out a whole lot? No fear – heal that broken heart and let it all out with an emotionally charged playlist of the best breakup songs that will definitely get those eye ducts filling up. Sometimes,

after a breakup

Breakups are hard work. They can change you as a person and push you to places you never thought you’d see before. However, everyone will go through a heinous breakup (and if you don’t, count yourself VERY lucky!), so don’t make the mistakes I did, and avoid these four activities after a breakup. I realise these