Creating A Life You Love Getting the Relationship You Want How to Move On

No, Relationship Advice Not to listen From Your Friends or Family. Here’s Why.

For some people, the world is one big support group and advice for good. They bring strangers, acquaintances and co-workers into their most personal challenges. Others are pickier, and they ask very close friends or family members to support them through their tough times. No matter who it is or how you select them, I am here to break it […]

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Peace Over Perfection Relationship Advice

Peace Over Perfection: Toxic Relationships

No matter how much progress women make in our society, there is still the same passe pressure to find a man, to get married and to grow old together. From books, TV and movies to  friends, family and beyond, we hear it. Single is bad. Relationships are good. And I’m not going to lie to you, relationships can be good. […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

Let’s Talk About Sex

There are times when stress and jobs and kids and mortgage payments suck the joy, the passion, the sexiness out of life. And out of your relationship. You fondly remember those years when sex and romance was just, well, natural. There was kissing, cuddling and make-out sessions that lasted hours. It felt like heat and flirtation radiated off you two. […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

Forgive & Forge Ahead

We all make mistakes, and we all endure the mistakes of others. Carelessness, forgetfulness, callousness, selfishness, disrespectfulness — all the nesses. And while these are usually errors in judgement, accidental blunders or misunderstandings. They can feel hurtful, cruel and malicious for those on the receiving end. That’s why forgiving is so hard. And that’s why forgiving and forgetting is nearly […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

Make Your Love Last

Your relationship is pretty good. You still make each other laugh, you still cuddle, you still feel loved. However, even in seemingly happy relationships, couples get stuck. Maybe it’s been a slow fade or a quick switch, but you and your partner are on two different pages (of two different books in two different languages), and no matter how hard […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

How to Improve Your Relationship With the Help of Self Love

Have you put your relationship before everything else? Have you lost yourself in love? The first step to turning the relationship of your dreams into a reality starts with being true to yourself. Some relationships can feel like a slowly rising tide. Only when you are completely immersed in water do you understand you are about to drown. You need […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

3 Reasons Relationships Fail

Attitude is everything. You’ve heard this before. Your middle school basketball coach probably even said it during a pre-game speech, or maybe it was the mid-level manager at your very first job. But have you ever applied that motto to your relationships? If you haven’t, well, it’s time to start. When I see couples who have the right attitude, there […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want Overcoming A Broken Relationship

Sweating ALL the Small Stuff: A Sign of Relationship Woes?

The dishes. When was the last time he touched the dishes? He just sets his dirty plates on the counter like he’s waiting for a maid, a housekeeper, a house elf to happily rinse and place them neatly in the dishwasher. This annoys you. It fills you with rage. It may even anger you enough to start an argument. Or […]

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Getting the Relationship You Want

Why I Love Couples Therapy

You have a love story. We all do. And while we cannot write every word of our love story, we can control how we react to the plot’s twists and turns. That’s life, that’s love: The ups and downs are uncontrollable, but it’s up to us how we ride those waves. This is what I love about relationships. And let […]

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Creating A Life You Love Single Women

Wake Up And Stop Settling

Freedom takes courage. When I sat down to write my new book, A Single Woman’s Wake-Up Call, I thought a lot about how challenging it is to be set free from the things that bring you down, that keep you chained up, that cause you to stay stuck in the past. It is so difficult to break the cycle and […]

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