Good & Healthy Relationship Advice & Tips

Jealousy should not be confused with envy. Envy is something you want but don’t have, whereas jealousy is something you already have but are afraid of losing. There is a big difference. 

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We all enter relationships because we want to be where we would be happy with the people we love.

 It’s only when you begin to really relate with the person that you begin to realise whether the new person you’re with would give you that love and peace of mind you seek.

Love is an oft used word, an oft desired word, an oft exploited word. We try to classify it as conditional love and unconditional love.

People married to a frail spouse are likely to become frail themselves and a person married to a depressed spouse is more likely to be sad, say researchers, adding that in older adults, frailty and depression are connected within couples.

Studies show that if a man expects 10 things in a relationship but finds eight, he is likely to leave but if a woman expects 10 things but finds only two, she is likely to stay. She is prepared to do anything to hold on. 

She loves too much – she is obsessed about her man and calls it love. She holds on to the relationship which is obviously dead and looks for drama, attention. Her obsession negatively controls her emotions, behaviour and general well-being, tension and security

1. When you chop off most of your hair. The idea that men don't know when women have done something with their hair is an old joke. It's a joke that's been beaten to death like a dead horse with a second dying horse, and then the second horse died and someone beat that, too.

1. He's clueless. Entertain the notion that he has no idea asking you out is anything but laughable. He might think you're out of his league or not interested. He might never have thought of you "that way" but he totally could think of you "that way" if he had a little nudge.

By God’s plan, the most important purpose of marriage is companionship. However in Ghana and in most developing countries, children are the focus of marriage and a marriage without children is seen as a bad omen.

Every woman, therefore, yearns to be a mother. Unfortunately, global studies shows 10 per cent of women cannot have children by natural means.

The causes of infidelity in women are many; the inability to produce healthy eggs, blockage of fallopian tubes and defective uterus which reject fertilised eggs. 

There is no shortage of relationship advice available, and one of the most common phrases is: Accept your partner for who he or she is and don’t try to change him or her.

While you may be able to make minor tweaks — like getting your significant other to wear dress pants instead of athletic shorts when you go out to eat — trying to make major changes to your partner is not part of a healthy relationship. Here are 4 things you will never be able to change about your significant other — no matter how hard you try.

Throughout our lives we settle for many things. You shouldn’t have to settle for the love you are entitled to have. How do you view your love life? Whatever you put out into the universe, it will mirror back with loving reflections. Love is an act of spiritual, emotional and physical will.

Love has no judgment, no agenda, no bias, and no bigotry. Love is love without a concrete definition. It lets go of boundaries, walls, and inhibitions. It is effortless. In relationships it does require work, but it’s just a rhythmic dance of ease and grace. Unfortunately, when it isn’t an easy dance, the relationship ends disastrously. It’s in those moments that we ask, “What happened?”

She lost her job and many of her friends due to her struggles with addiction.

But Sami Walton is not under the power of drugs or alcohol, but rather a slave to her own lust.

The 29-year-old has a sex addiction that leaves her unable to keep her hands off partner of four years James Keates.

Today marriage has become a battlefield with most spouses being casualties. Sociologists warn that if marriage continues to break down at the present rate, there will be no more marriages left by the end of this century.

The sad picture today is that only 20 per cent of marriages work, while 60 per cent of marriages fail. This leaves us with 20 per cent marriages which are lifeless.

Stop giving your time, your body and most of all, your heart, to people who haven't earned it.

Take a moment to reflect on the society we're living in: a society of participation trophies — awards for just showing up. A society of some high school football teams who have stopped keeping scores at games so nobody's feelings get hurt.

A society of endless internet memes that proclaim that everyone deserves love and is perfect just the way they are. But whose love is it that they're deserving of? It has to come from somewhere — and that somewhere is you and me.

You will not be her first love. But maybe, if you are lucky, you can be her last. She has already felt the highs and lows of love. She has experienced a wide spectrum of emotions that life has thrown at her. She is a challenge – a work in progress of sorts.

But if you are willing to step up to the plate and love her right, I can promise you that the girl with the complicated past will be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Cheating is definitely one quick, big way to absolutely annihilate a relationship, but as a recent Ask Reddit thread pointed out, there are plenty of other things that are much more potent when it comes to ruining even the strongest of bonds.

Some of the worst things that lead to a breakup (that aren't cheating) start out small and indiscernible, and that's what makes them so dangerous. 

You’ve finally met the woman of your dreams and now you’re ready to settle down. Now that you’ve met your soul mate, it’s time to start making plans. But do you know all there is to know about her?

Take the time to learn as much as you can before you head out to buy that engagement ring. Here are some important questions you need to answer before heading down the aisle.

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