What's Your Relationship Reality?
May 9th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
So it’s prom and your boyfriend rented a hotel room. Or it’s graduation and you figure you better lose it now before college. If you’re planning on your first time to coinciding with a major life event, here are some things to keep in mind:
Are you actually ready? When it comes to sex, there is no “should” (even though it can definitely feel like it!). It’s not like youshould have sex because it’s prom or you should have sex before college....
February 25th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else...
February 19th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else...
February 12th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else...
February 5th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
We're talking a lot this month about what makes up a bad or abusive relationship...but as important as it is to recognize a negative relationship, it's also really important to understand what makes up a healthy relationship. We asked members of our teen advisory group to help us define what things make up a healthy relationship and they took it a step further: they made awesome collages featuring images and words that make them think of love, trust, communication, and anything else...
January 24th, 2013 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
Though obviously fun to use, Facebook can also be a major source of stress. We know it’s changed the way we date, so before you accidentally detonate one, here are a few Facebook-related relationship landmines and how to avoid them.
The “Facebook official” Fall-Out. Making a relationship Facebook official can be almost as stressful as making a relationship official in person. At what point do you declare? What if you send a relationship request and it doesn’t...
December 19th, 2012 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
Check out Part 1 here.
You’ve already realized that dating your friends’ exes comes with its own complications. But dating your exes’ friends isn’t any easier. High school can be a bubble that’s hard to break out of. This means branching out romantically might not always be a viable option. But once you start pursuing multiple people from a friend group you’re laying the foundation for awkward times in the near future. This decision will put a stress on your...
November 2nd, 2012 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
As the saying goes: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. Nor can you pick your friend’s ex as your new boyfriend or girlfriend. Sure, no one can officially tell you who to and who not to date. We all try to take the advice from our friends, respect the wishes of our parents, and listen to our instincts, but figuring out who is the right fit for us romantically is a trial-and-error process each time. If you find yourself on...
July 27th, 2012 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
Last time, I shared my top 5 dating deal breakers…but when you get right down to it, there’s obviously way more than five things someone can do to make you want to end things. So, by popular demand, here are five more things that guys do that drive me crazy.
Talking smack to (or about) your mother.
Unless your mother is clinically insane, and frankly even then, there is no excuse for being mean to your good ‘ol mom. I believe in the power of mothers, and when guys...
July 17th, 2012 | What's Your Relationship Reality?
After recently watching VH1’s Top 100 Best Songs of the 2000’s, with Beyonce and Jay-Z winning the #1 best song with Crazy In Love, it got me thinking about love. Love is such a complex word, and everyone seems to have their own definition, but a truth that seems universal is that everyone wants this “love,” the closest thing we seem to have to magic.
My aunt and uncle—better known to others as Leanne and Mike—have been my relationship role...
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