I believe I’ve spoken about maintaining individuality and spending time away from your partner, however, I can’t help but wonder that even when I’ve been in a relationship for half a year now, will I be able to pass the test of distance?
It’ll just be four days. I’ll be going off on a *political* road trip (part of media on a campaign caravan of a senatorial candidate), which means I’ll be on the road without my partner beside me and I’ll be doing my own thing. It’s a bit unsettling since, for the past few months, I’ve grown used to …read more

Fresh from watching Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey’s movie, Failure to Launch, I write about the topic of getting the approval of your partner’s friends. Parker’s character, Paula, called it “The Nod”, which basically is referring to the literal nodding of the friends. It can be interpreted to them saying that their friend whom she’s dating has made a good decision in going out with her, which then caused her to assume that he’s on the road to falling for her and the possibility for the relationship to grow serious is much higher.
Let me explain it further in …read more

Throughout the next several weeks I will be revisiting a classic article that I obtained several years ago. I have no idea who the author is or where it came from – only that it was received via a relationship support group, and at that time it had been copied so many times that you could tell it was a well worn and used resource. The article has become a bit outdated with statistics and other bits of information but the basis is still very strong.
It was through this article that I was able to recognize …read more