Molly Burford

Modern dating. It’s brutal out there. To date successfully means you must have a thick skin while also opening up your heart. It’s a difficult balance to strike.

It’s better to have Friday night plans watching Scrubs with just yourself, a few glasses of cabernet sauvignon, and your dog than it is to get all dressed up only to wait on your couch for the guy you’re sleeping…

We all have our off days. When things aren’t going the way you had planned, what do you do to pull yourself out of it?

The talking stage is a time to assess whether someone is worth going for (or better off letting go).

When you finally stop settling for a bare minimum man, you will first mistake his absence as loneliness. Everything in your life will be much quieter. Your phone will stop vibrating as much.

You’ve been seeing and talking to him for a few weeks or maybe even a couple of months, and things are going so well. For starters, you have so much fun together. The chemistry is undeniable.

The relationship you have with your parents is one of the most fundamental and impactful relationships you have.

Read this when you’re feeling worn out and need a serious boost.

I have borderline personality disorder (BPD), an emotional regulation disorder that makes navigating daily life difficult. It affects every facet of my existence including my relationships, self-image, work, and general functioning.

Here are 15 people on the absurd and random marriage advice that actually helped their own. 1. Always choose to be kind. Dad said, ‘Be kind even if you’re not feeling it. Maybe especially if you’re not feeling it. semantician 2.

1. You stop limiting yourself.  First, the most obvious reason to date outside of your usual type is that you expand your options.

Breakups suck. Movies help.

In a dating culture that both thrives on non-commitment as well as our collective fear of dying utterly and completely alone, it only makes sense that situationships have become so common.

You deserve more than the bare minimum. You deserve genuine interest, effort, and appreciation. Here are some definitive signs he’s only giving you the bare minimum (and that you should definitely move on).

A situationship is considered to be a casual, undefined relationship that can actually be harder to define than you might realize.

Aries: They just tell you they’re into you outright. Aries is probably the boldest of the entire zodiac. They are fiery and barrel headfirst into everything they do. This is especially true when it comes to dating.

If you’re trying to figure out if he wants to be with you, there is only one question you need to ask yourself in order to know: Where is he, and why isn’t it with you? No, seriously.

When you’re the “last single friend,” it’s easy to feel stressed about your relationship status, mostly because of how everyone else in your life makes you feel about flying solo.