By Jennifer Cochran “Give without remembering. Receive without forgetting.” ~Unknown It was Sunday, April 12, 2015. I had just finished my grocery shopping and was about to leave the parking lot when I noticed a call from my dad. I called him back so we could talk for a few minutes. He said, “Troy died.” I…

By: Advisor Adeena Soulmates, destined partners and kindred spirits are all terms that have been used to describe relationships that enter our Life path and change how we view relationships. But what is the difference between all of these connections Kindred Spirits Kindred spirits are individuals that run on the same spiritual level and give off the same…

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 M. J. Ross “Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.” ~Brené Brown When we’re younger, we’re fearless. We don’t mind climbing trees, making friends with strangers, or telling our secrets to people we’ve just met. We open our eyes and hearts to new experiences and people, and we trust that everything is going to…

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 Tiffaney Kennedy “I used to be afraid of the pain letting go of the past would cause, until I realized how much pain holding on has caused.” ~Steve Maraboli Getting over the pain of a bad relationship is never easy. Even when I finally felt more in control of my feelings, the pain from my past would…

By Lauren Golombek “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” ~Robert Holden As a child I was carefree and enthusiastic. Aren’t most kids? At some point, though, life began to impact me and to affect how I felt about myself. For as long as I can remember, I was a…

By Chris Schurke “Sometimes walking away is the only option because you finally respect yourself enough to know that you deserve better.” ~Unknown When I was cheated on, I was hit by an ongoing blizzard of conflicting emotions. There were the initial tears that I failed to hide from anyone. There was a cold ruthlessness as…

By Renée Suzanne “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” ~Stephen Covey Just a few short years ago, I sat across the table from a lovely man on a first date. It had taken a couple months to get there due to our busy schedules, but it seemed…

By Marissa Walter “When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.” ~Zig Ziglar The end of a relationship triggers many grief emotions, but when a couple breaks up because one person decides that it’s over, there is a very distinct pain: the sting of rejection. It doesn’t matter whether things had…

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 Betsy Talbot “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~Mildred Barthel I used to think he was out to get me. The man of my dreams was continually plotting to undermine my happiness in countless ways, all for some mysterious reason I couldn’t comprehend. “Can you give me a ride to work today?”…

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…

Many of us feel we’re not getting the support we want or deserve in relationships. Maybe we’ve never felt supported by our friends or family. Maybe we don’t feel supported by our peers or co-workers. Maybe we don’t even feel supported by our partner. This can leave us feeling drained, tired, and unhappy, like we’re moving through…

“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….