By Kim Speer I will breathe. I will think of solutions, I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit.” ~Shayne McClendon It was a Wednesday afternoon in late July, and I felt like my…

By Eric Ibey “Resilience in love means finding strength from within that you can share with others.” ~Sheryl Sandberg It took me a couple months to start repairing my broken heart after the toughest breakup of my life. I thought we were going to spend our lives together, but the gods of love had other plans….

By Aska Kolton “Never lose yourself in a relationship. Love your partner fiercely, but always follow your unique dreams and desires. Be true to yourself.” ~Unknown All my previous relationships drained me. Not only because I was with the wrong men and kept trying to make things work where there was no way, but also because…

By Kayla Albert “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~C.S. Lewis My eyes leapt open sometime after 2am and, after feeling the empty space next to me, I knew. The cell phone I laid on the pillow beside…

By: Advisor Adeena Want to know if you and your partner are meant to be in each others lives? Want to know if your relationship is healthy? Want to know if your partner is cheating? Want to know if you are twin flames, kindred spirits or soulmates? Take My love quiz Complete the quiz send…

By Emily Gregory “It’s about our ability to leave our death on the battlefield of life. Or having the strength and courage to give them our love and to bring them back.” ~Edward Frenkel It took me almost twenty years to realize that running away from ourselves isn’t the same as letting go. That realization, as…

By Sara Fabian “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~Rumi One of the most common sources of conflict among people is in the way we communicate. Often times, conflicts arise because of the variety of our opinions and beliefs, and also from the way we express our thoughts…

By Richelle Ludwig “Worry about loving yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.” ~Unknown Body image and self-love have been my biggest struggles. They’ve affected every area of my life, including relationships. I developed anorexia in high school after experiencing a number of losses in a short period of time. During my…

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Almost all of my romantic relationships have had some kind of long ending. At some point I’ve gained clarity on the relationship, I’ve acknowledged the truth that it’s not working out, and then I’ve ended it. I would like to…

By Jeremy Scott Lambert “When you have a choice to make and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” ~William James I have been single for most of my life; sometimes it would seem by choice, and sometimes not. In that time, I have learned and experienced a lot. Some of the things I…

By Ohana Nery “My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.” ~Byron Katie I never had a good relationship with my father when I was younger. Sometimes he expressed his opinions in a rude way, sounding more like an attack than advice. Many times he apologized after…

By Celestine Chua Dear Celes, I don’t remember how I found you and your blog. What I remember is how touched I felt when I read your series “How to Move On from a Heartbreak.” At that time I was in a similar ambiguous romantic-yet-not-in-a-relationship position that you were in with G, and successfully moved on from it….

By: Advisor Adeena Stage One- Desire To Find Each Other  This is the first stage. You may have experienced bad relationship after bad relationship, struggling to understand why you have not found happiness with “The One” that doesn’t yet exist in your life. You wonder if there is better out there you wonder when you…

By Tara Massan “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than bread.” ~Mother Teresa I’ve been in a relationship with my boyfriend for over four years. We’ve had our fair share of great times and not so pretty moments, but this summer our relationship was put to the test. During that time,…

By Marwan Jamal “Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience, and two people who truly want to be together.” ~Unknown You can`t take it anymore. Life’s getting boring, you fight over everything, your relationship has lost its spark, and you can’t look each other in the eye without feeling regret. Many marriages and relationships get…

By Hannah Brooks “By letting our deep longing for love and connectedness be exposed…[we are] opening up the channel through which love can enter.” ~John Welwood When we feel disconnected from our romantic partner what we often want most is to genuinely feel their love again, to feel connected. And yet, it can be so difficult to…

By Aska Kolton “Single is no longer a lack of options, but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.” ~Mandy Hale In our society, being single is still heavily stigmatized. Being single is…

By Renée Suzanne “Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.” ~Unknown I used to think that true love should be passionate and intense. When someone broke up with me or treated me poorly, I’d imagine that he really didn’t mean it. Surely he was really a good person and truly loved me, but was…

By Holly L. Pender “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ~Robert Brault Valentine’s Day has never been a big deal to me. It always felt commercialized, so forced. I’ve never felt I needed Hallmark to remind me to do something special for my husband,…

By Angela Lois “Some people come into your life for a reason, some a season, and some a lifetime. However long it was, be thankful for the gifts you received from them.” ~Unknown When I first met him, we instantly clicked. We became fast friends aided by the fact that I was dealing with my father’s death and he was by my side…