Dealing with Betrayal: How to Cope With Infidelity in Your Relationship

Dealing with Betrayal: How to Cope With Infidelity in Your Relationship

Infidelity is considered as the last straw when a relationship is about to end. When a partner becomes romantically involved with someone else, it comes with a lot of emotional stress. Those who suffer from such a betrayal become predisposed to depression, anxiety and general emotional instability. In the unfortunate event that a partner discovers an extra marital, the effects can be devastating.

Cross Cultural Relationships: Identifying the Roots of Commonly Occurring Issues in Cross Cultural Couples

Cross Cultural Relationships: Identifying the Roots of Commonly Occurring Issues in Cross Cultural Couples

Culture and tradition play a crucial role in our personal development. Our lifestyles, moral outlook and ideals are fundamentally determined by the cultural values we are exposed to after we’re born. Adjusting with someone coming in from the same socio-cultural background can be a tad difficult. Adjusting with someone who comes from a different background altogether brings with it a whole new level of difficulty. The differences in ideals, religious conceptions and in some cases, … Continue Reading

The Long Game: Considerations For When You Are Planning To Marry

The Long Game: Considerations For When You Are Planning To Marry

Finding the love of your life is one of the most exciting and joyous moments. Marrying them feels like you’ve achieved a milestone; you are in love, happy and everything is right with the world. While there is much to be said about the happiness couples feel when deeply in love and when they decide to get married, certain long-term considerations need to be taken into account before actually getting married.

How to Strike a Balance between Career and Relationship

Career and Relationships: How to Strike a Healthy Balance between the Two

Though relationships are and always have been important, in the modern environment, more and more of us find ourselves being extremely career driven. An article published in the Psychology Today magazine briefly goes over balancing career ambitions and your relationships. This is a pertinent question and one that concerns many of us. How does one strike a healthy balance between a career they love/need and a relationship which is equally if not more dear? How to Strike … Continue Reading

Relational Success: Is Love Enough to See a Marriage Through?

Relational Success: Is Love Enough to See a Marriage Through?

If you grew up like many on  a diet of fiction, romance and maybe a lot of Disney one of the things you might have been exposed to is notions of undying, unconditional romantic love. It is love according to such narratives that breaks curses, it is love where people find healing and solace and it is love that overcomes all. Even a lot of the music we listen to today (and have for decades … Continue Reading