You’ve identified that your mother is a narcissist. Maybe you’ve known this for several years, or perhaps you’re just now putting the pieces together. Either way, you have a fitting label for all the chaos your mother has added to your life. As a narcissist, she puts her needs before others, and she seemingly has no problem manipulating others to get what she wants. It’s not surprising that her childish behavior can leave you feeling incredibly frustrated, sad, and even confused....

Has your boss been giving you special attention lately? Do you catch him staring at you? Have you been wondering if your boss likes you romantically? Do you find yourself wrestling with the dilemma of “does my boss have a crush on me and how do I handle it?” Maintaining boundaries in a workplace is difficult as you spend a major part of your day with your colleagues. With all those hours of work and extra shifts, you tend to form personal relationships with your coworkers....

Protecting one’s body after sex is as important as maintaining hygiene before sex. Being careful prevents vaginal infections, urinary tract infections and the spread of yeast infection. While being told to be hygienic about sex is something that we learn in high school, we, as adults, engage in sexual activities without being careful at all. Here are a few common hygiene mistakes we make during, before and after intimacy that should be avoided altogether....

I’m from a relatively small town in South Africa. I’ve been living on university campus residence throughout my years of study. Thereafter, I moved into a number of different apartments and my last, a shared house in the city. I was raised in a prominent Islamic family. My family plays a pivotal role in the Islamic community of the town, has multiple businesses, serves as the leaders of the mosques and also heads multiple Islamic initiatives in the town....

Why I thought I should take tips from YouTube Sandeep and I had an arranged marriage. So it goes without saying that we took really long to explore each other’s sexual desires. Post childbirth, I was averse to any kind of sexual activity for a good six months. But I eventually made up my mind to bounce back – dump those maternity pants and redo my wardrobe, wake up with a smile even after breastfeeding a crying baby five times in the night and go for a regular walk while acknowledging my priorities....

Do I Have To Change My Name After Marriage? My maiden name is Riley Hofstadter and I’d never really liked my last name before marriage. It was long and no one ever spelled or pronounced it properly. I was actually quite looking forward to the fact that I could bid adieu to it after marriage. We got married and went on honeymoon, we got busy with our jobs soon after. Then we had a kid and life got 10x busier as it gets when you start parenting as a couple....

“I decided to follow my heart and left my marriage,” says a wiser and older Jennifer. “But now I wonder if it was all worth it.” Unfortunately, her second marriage to her lover didn’t last long either as the residual complications of her decision cast a looming shadow on her new relationship. Tania Kawood, Dubai-based holistic healer, counselor and founder of TK Holistic Clinic notes that this pattern is seen in most relationships that begin from infidelity....

When you think about falling in love, the expectation is that it will bring you joy, togetherness, and a happily ever after. But life is not a rom-com and not all love stories pan out with rainbows and roses. There is an extreme other end of the love spectrum that entails the pain of knowing that you cannot be with the person you are in love with. When that happens, you have no choice but to learn how to love someone from afar....

Relationships between two people are tough enough without adding in a silent, or not-so-silent, third party. Is his mom too much a part of your relationship, or do his mommy issues sabotage all his adult relationships? These are questions you might ask yourself when you find yourself dating what is commonly called a mama’s boy. For the sake of full disclosure, I am the mother of a son. There’s nothing wrong with a parent and child being close....

My boyfriend’s mum hated me outright, so to say. She always taunted us when we were around and would not enjoy my presence in her company. The transition from love to hate was long, but with these steps, I finally got my boyfriend’s mother to love me. At first, I thought she only hated me because mothers often tend to get really obsessive about their sons. They only want a tall, slender, beautiful woman who is also traditional and they want her to be ‘in her limits’....

My husband won’t spend any money at all “Abhay, please give me Rs 200 for buying some vegetables,” I asked him. He yelled, “I will not. You can use your money.” As stunned I was from the outside, inside I found it hilarious. I was stunned because he refused to give his own wife a petty amount of 200, that too for vegetables that he will also eat. I found it funny because of my stupidity to have asked him for 200 when last week he took back 20 that I borrowed from him for the auto-rickshaw I took from work....

Mimi was a tall, dusky, attractive girl in her mid-thirties. She was vivacious, spirited and loved to engage in deep, meaningful conversations. I learned she’d been a model and a television actress. She loved to read, was into fitness, and was also toying with the idea of being a writer. She was in town to attend a literary festival and hobnob with people from the media for a project she was working on....

There are no two ways about it; modern dating is weird. After meeting on a dating app, you basically collect information about each other until one of you decides to ghost the other. When one slips through the cracks and actually establishes a connection with you, now you’ve got to define the relationship and include them in your online persona. It seems straightforward, and you might not even care so much....

Serial daters are suave and chic – they are attractive and will have your attention at first glance. They are master manipulators masked by charisma. I am not saying that serial daters are horrible, they mostly just lack general conscience. They may present themselves to be different, almost like out of a dream. Beware, it is a trap! That impression is not going to last for long. What Is A Serial Dater?...

Often, not knowing your way around your partner’s body and vice-versa can also take pleasure out of sexual interactions, making it less and less appealing. Talking about sex and an uninhibited approach toward expressing sexual needs and desires can prove to be an effective tool toward combatting this roadblock that hinders intimacy and gives ways to sexless marriages and relationships. Lack Of Sexual Intimacy You may not always be able to identify the signs your partner is faking it in bed....

You have been seeing a girl. Things were going great, or at least you felt so. One day, she stops texting. Do you recognize yourself in this story? I bet yes. Most probably, because it is more common than you’d think. Maybe you are asking yourself: “She’s not texting me like she used to. What did I do wrong? What do I do now?”. No worry,you are not alone. I was very excited, after the date we kept talking every day until one moment when she stopped texting me… I tried to ask her out again but she was very cold and distant....

Let’s take, for example, double texting. Nowadays, double-texting a guy is labeled as something unattractive or clingy. This is a type of stigma that is slowly starting to change and double-texting isn’t seen as taboo. Indeed, double-texting isn’t always the best idea but there are some specific cases that it will be a game changer. Double-texting isn’t an option if his last text indicates that he’s not that interested or needs some time to reflect....

What are the best comebacks to “shut up”? Being told to keep your mouth shut will always sting, no matter what the situation is. There’s something against being silenced that feels unjust, and you wish you could get a bit of revenge with your words. Actually, in some situations, you should speak up. It’s been found that, in certain situations, holding your tongue can be more destructive than giving a comeback....

Yes, it’s not realistic to choose a partner based solely on what sign they were born under nor is the knowledge of which zodiac sign is the biggest heartbreaker a fool-proof way to prevent a relationship from going south. Even so, it does give you a fair idea of how a potential or existing partner may behave when the going gets tough, enabling you to manage the outcome better....

I always had very idealized notions of marriage. When I was younger, I couldn’t wait to one day find the man of my dreams and tie the knot. I believed that life only got rosier after marriage. Which is why I was thrilled when Dad told me about the ‘proposal’ that had come our way, for me. Samuel was a guy I had been seeing while I was studying Biology in University....