Dating a Guy Your Friends Don’t Like

Question 1. Would you date someone your parents didn’t approve of? Question 2. Would you date someone your friends didn’t approve of? The research is in. The days of listening to parents are over. You’re much more likely to be swayed by your friends’ opinion....

Why It’s Not Selfish to Say No to Your Guy

I’m going to ask you a really tough question. Here it is. Your guy has asked you to do something you REALLY don’t want to do. Do you: Say yes … but end up feeling resentful? Say no … but end up feeling guilty? It’s impossible, right? Either way, you end up feeling...

Stop the Pursue-Withdraw Pattern Before It Breaks Your Relationship

Madison didn’t want to fight. Her relationship felt suffocating, but she didn’t know how to tell her boyfriend that she didn’t want to spend every weekend with him. She felt she owed it to him to arrange her schedule around him, but she’d begun to resent it. She’d...

How to Spot (and Attract) a Genuine Romantic

Karen wanted the whole shebang. A man she could stroll with along the city streets, window-shopping and ducking into cafés for hot chocolates and pastries. A man who’d present her with an elaborately wrapped gift box, containing a bracelet he knew she coveted but...

More Than Friends? When to Worry about Another Woman

Alexis hoped she was overreacting. “He says they’re just friends, and I want to believe him,” she told me. “The problem is, I know women like her. They get close just because they can.” Alexis’ boyfriend Eric was a good guy. He was friendly, easy-going, and sociable....