An existential crisis is the moment the life you’ve been performing stops feeling like yours, and this is what it is, what triggers it and what helps.
Forgiving yourself starts when you stop punishing the part of you that got it wrong and let yourself feel the shame underneath, with someone beside you.
There is no magic number of dates before a relationship. I explain what actually decides it, why you want to rush or stall, and the exact words for asking to be exclusive.
A quarter life crisis is the moment your body stops performing work it doesn’t believe in, and here’s what it is and how to get through it.
Whether or not your parent would meet a diagnosis, growing up as their mirror leaves a real wound, and here’s how to heal it without needing the label.
He blocked you after a fight and you want to know why and whether he is gone. A couples therapist on the four reasons men block, what to do tonight, and how to tell a temporary block from a final one.
Snapchat itself is not cheating. The secrecy is what hurts, and I explain how to tell the difference and what to say tonight without becoming the detective.
Being a good girlfriend is not about being perfect, easygoing, or never needing anything. It is about reliably answering the two questions his heart keeps asking, repairing fast, and staying yourself.
The stares and constant texts can be limerence or love bombing. The real sign a man is falling in love with you is that he becomes reliably there, and lets you see the man behind the performance.
How important is sex in a relationship? As much as it matters to the two of you, and what matters most is what it means, because for many people sex is how the body asks: are you there for me, and am I enough?
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