Back when Relationships used to be known as Dating Dames, I used to post links to the games and quizzes they’ve got over at Cosmo online. These quizzes are just for fun, so don’t expect any real serious advice. If you are looking to kill a little time, take a look at one of these…….
*Quiz: Are You Way Too Obsessed With Your Ex?  Some guys (or girls) are hard to forget, but nobody wants to be stalkerish. See how you are doing with this quiz.
*Quiz: Are You Good-Girl Hot or Bad-Girl Hot? The quote with this game is “Are you so …read more

Balance is the constant thread through all of my ideas about achieving successful and happy relationships.  Leading a balanced life can help you to feel comfortable, fulfilled, and confident, which can have a positive affect on your relationships with the friends, family, and significant other in your life.  As the slowness of Summer comes to an end I think it’s a good time to evaluate the changes that might be coming this Fall and ask yourself how you are going to maintain balance in your life and your relationships.

Maybe you have a new job, new city, new school, new goals, …read more

I have definitely met a lot of girls who say “I don’t have a lot of girl friends” or ”for some reason girls don’t like me.”  I am very understanding about this issue and I think that it it is worthwhile for those who only have girl friends and those who don’t have any to think about this issue and figure out where you might fit in.
I have mentioned in some of my previous posts that, unfortunately for many of us, a first impression is very important.  It’s a natural characteristic to feel welcomed or off-put by someone during the first …read more

There will be times in your life when your friends or family that are closest to you will go through a difficult and possibly unexpected situation.  You will worry about them and want to offer help and support.  I have some advice for helping friends and family through a crisis…
A few months ago my apartment in Brooklyn suddenly burned down.  Luckily I wasn’t in the unit at the time, but I did lose my home and a lot of my belongings.  Obviously the situation could have much worse, but I still see the situation as a small crisis.  I suddenly …read more

Sometimes I hear the kids arguing and one of them will use a word or phrase that is not a normal part of their vocabulary. For example, not many 17 year-old boys would say this, “You are the most deceitful person that I have ever met.” Instead they would say something like this, “You are a liar.”

Sometimes people get jealous. They worry that someone is slipping away, that they are losing their influence. They worry that they might be losing the love or complete attention of another person and when this happens, they turn to coercion. They hit on a person’s frailties, on …read more

A few months ago, my friend *Tim (names changed because all my friends read my blog, it seems), told another friend *Anna, that he had feelings for her.
Tim and Anna had a great sort of – what seemed to be – brother/sister banter/bond. They’d hang out a lot, tease each other mercilessly, but all in a platonic sense.
Until that one day that, over linguine, Tim told Anna that he had had feelings for her…for years.
Anna did not feel the same, and let him down gently. Tim said he understood, that it wouldn’t change their friendship, and life went on uninterrupted.
Now, …read more

Aly, one of the other realtionship writers here at Blisstree, wrote about an issue that came up with her friend the other day. She was confused and unsure how to handle the situation.  Adult friendships can be tricky.  There’s not always a clear path to take, it’s easy to misread things or second-guess yourself. 
Remember when you were a kid, how easy it was to make friends?  You were offered up a new selection every Fall when you returned to school or you could hang with the kids in your neighborhood. Either way, there were so many options and the rules …read more

Generally, I interpret the relationship channel as being about those of a romantic nature…but the truth is, relationships come in all forms, and ultimately, friendships can be just as “angsty” as any other kind of entanglement.
I have a situation that I am at a total loss of what to do about.
Several years ago, I became acquainted with a friend through several other mutual ones. She’s one of those awesomely strong women – she moved cross-country on her own straight out of college, is brilliant, and when she tragically lost her husband before even hitting their 30th birthdays, she soldiered on, …read more

A very close friend of mine has had an on/off thing with a close guy friend for years. They are “buddies” – except every few months they fool around.
She’s completely in love with him, and has told him – he has gently told her that’s not what he’s about, and things have fallen off…and things have started off again. Repeat.
Said girl is obviously at fault for letting herself continuously go down that road to hurt..but when said guy sits at lunch and tells her about the awesome new girl he is seeing, does he not realize that said girl may …read more

I have a new boyfriend and it’s a little on the complicated side, because for some reason easy does not seem to be in the cards for me. Maybe that’s so that I will truly appreciate love when it arrives?  I’m not sure, but I do know that I am hopeful and very interested in seeing where this is going to go.
He is an old friend whom I caught up with again on Facebook. Facebook? Really?
I know it sounds silly, but reconnecting with old friends is my favorite thing about sites like Facebook or MySpace. We have spent more hours …read more