The internet and the smartphone have vastly changed how people meet. The number of heterosexual and same-sex couples who meet through online dating has increased significantly. In fact, online dating is the most common way heterosexual couples are meeting now. It used to be that the most common way to meet someone was through friends of friends. … [Read more...] about How Online Dating Has Become the New Normal
Tips for Singles
A Beginners Guide to Casual Relationships
To understand how to build a casual relationship that fits your wants and needs, you first need to understand what a casual relationship is; the word casual can mean different things to different people. What is a casual relationship? A casual relationship is an emotional and physical relationship between two people that may include sex and might … [Read more...] about A Beginners Guide to Casual Relationships
5 Survival Tips for Online Dating
Believe it or not, online dating was once considered a strange and unusual thing. When I started working as a couples therapist back in the early 21st Century, I always asked my couples how they met. My couples would often be embarrassed to tell me they met online. It was like online dating was a dirty little secret that they didn’t want their … [Read more...] about 5 Survival Tips for Online Dating
6 Tips for Finding Love This Holiday Season
 If you find yourself single this holiday season, reluctant to do anything except stay home and indulge various vices, take heart: it’s a time of year like any other. It’s just been so co-opted by capitalism that we’re bombarded with holiday images and expectations from early November through the New Year. With media messages that the … [Read more...] about 6 Tips for Finding Love This Holiday Season
How to Decide if a Significant Relationship Commitment is Right for You
There comes a time in every relationship when you need to make a significant decision or commitment together. You might be considering increasing your relationship commitment, or making a decision together which requires a big emotional, financial, or psychological commitment. Some significant relationship commitments you might make together … [Read more...] about How to Decide if a Significant Relationship Commitment is Right for You
Kicking Your Sex Life into High Gear: The Dual Control Model and What It Means for Your Relationships
The surprising science that will transform your sex life. We all know that we have sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. We might sometimes have trouble identifying what exactly they are in ourselves and others, but we know they’re there. With inspiration from sex educator and TEDx speaker Emily Nagoski, I’m inviting you to apply that turn-on/turn-off … [Read more...] about Kicking Your Sex Life into High Gear: The Dual Control Model and What It Means for Your Relationships
Online Dating: How to Keep Yourself Safe
If you're meeting people through online dating, follow these safety tips Like shopping, online dating is more popular now than ever before. (Could you call it a kind of online shopping? Maybe). 1 out of 5 single people has dated someone they met online. We don’t have statistics for how many Australians are doing online dating. However, RSVP says … [Read more...] about Online Dating: How to Keep Yourself Safe
Desperate and Dateless? Try the 5-Second Rule
Do you have problems meeting new dating partners? The 5-second rule can help you I was recently searching on Amazon for some of the top-rating non-fiction books and stumbled across the book by Mel Robbins called, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage.  I then discovered Mel's TEDx talk, viewed over 12 … [Read more...] about Desperate and Dateless? Try the 5-Second Rule
3 Essential Qualities to Look for in a Long-term Romantic Partner
Are you just unlucky in love, or attracting the wrong partners? If you’re permanently single, or have been just been unlucky in love, you may have wondered what are the qualities to look for in a long-term romantic partner. There are three essential qualities to look for when you choose a long-term romantic partner. These three essential … [Read more...] about 3 Essential Qualities to Look for in a Long-term Romantic Partner
NEW STUDY: Want Long-Term Happiness? Couple Up!
According to a new study, being married has a lifelong effect on how content people are. The authors, Shawn Grover and John Helliwell of the Vancouver School of Economics in Canada, published a study in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies. They investigated people's levels of well-being based on their marital status. Using data from two UK … [Read more...] about NEW STUDY: Want Long-Term Happiness? Couple Up!