Can Casual Relationships Ever Be Healthy? Yes, Sometimes.

Engaging in casual relationships as a booster or something in between a breakup and starting over in a new relationship is highly common. Thanks to dating apps (and sites), cultural shifts in dating and freedom of expression over the last couple of decades, and how...

Casual Isn’t Always Cool: Know Your Boundaries in Ambiguous Relationships

An increasing number of companies use zero-hour contracts. These agreements are where an employer isn’t obliged to provide any minimum working hours (or benefits), although the employee must be available for work as and when required. Of course, this makes it...

If You Want a Loving Relationship, Don’t Settle for Crumbs

If you keep choosing and engaging at the level of a previous unfulfilling or unhealthy relationship, you’re effectively sending a message to yourself that these relationships are ‘right’ for you. The same goes if you keep insisting that the wrong relationship should...

But Really, Is It ‘Okay’ To Date Somebody You Don’t See a Future With?

As humans, we give ourselves permission to be, do and have things that are’t necessarily reflective of who we are in the main or our stated intentions and values.  We say we want to cut back on sugar and then, when stressed, give ourselves permission to eat...

Dating and avoiding getting hurt while seeking physical affection in a casual relationship

When we carry hurt from previous dating and relationship experiences, we become guarded. We think what we’re doing is having boundaries when, in fact, our guardedness is our wall. It’s not unusual, though, to soon find ourselves between a rock and a hard...