When finding the right person to be with, it’s impossible for us not to have preferences. Some of us may prefer women with long black hair, some prefer blondes. There are those of us who love dating Eastern European women, but others don’t really have this preference. Is it possible though that we are becoming too picky while dating?

When You’re Too Picky While Dating, You’ll Have A Hard Time Finding True Love

In an age where we are granted so many options, it’s impossible for us not to be picky. We have online dating and app dating now which affords us plenty of options. If you say that you want to meet a Spanish person, with dark hair, blue eyes, who works as a doctor, lives a comfortable life, and has only had three serious relationships so far, you might find one. But, does this mean being too picky while dating? read more

There are two main ways for us to determine our success in this life – one, we take a look at our success in love, and, two, we examine the quality of the life we’re living now. Many of us haven’t reached this point yet because we think that in order to succeed in love and life we need to pay our dues first.

Equip Yourself With These Skills To Succeed In Love And Live The Best Life

Often times, we do need to work hard to achieve success. However, most of us struggle because we look at the whole process as a struggle for excellence. We think that in order for us to be successful in love and life, we need to be perfect in every aspect of our life. We learn so many useless skills when all we really need to be doing is focus on the big seven: read more

If there is anything that is trending in the dating game nowadays, it is how millennials have coined a term for every stage and aspect of going out. There are so many new age dating terms now that it can be hard to catch up.

New Age Dating Terms You Have Never Known Before

In order not to miss out, here are some updated new age dating terms for you. You may or may not apply them, but well, it pays to be informed:

Draking

The term Draking is inspired by the Canadian rapper. It refers to people who are wallowing in their sorrows because of their love interest who did not return the feelings or just basically dumped them. Meanwhile, the people who do that are called ‘Drakers’.

Fauxbaeing

Sometimes, it’s hard to accept that you are still single while your friends have changed boyfriends and girlfriends several times already. And, it’s worse if your friends are already making fun of you. If you get tired of being the butt of jokes during every meeting, you resort to fauxbaeing. It is inventing an imaginary girlfriend or a boyfriend on social media, making people believe that you are not zero in love. read more

We all want to have the strongest relationships with the people we love and care for. Most may think that it might take a while for us to fully understand what we have to do in order to make this happen. But, we can gradually build up to our goal of having the strongest relationship by focusing on the essentials.

The Three Main Ingredients That Make The Strongest Relationships

The problem with us is that we normally think that maintaining a good relationship is a lot of work. To some degree, it is, but it is not as much work as what we imagine. For example, if you want your relationship to be strong, you don’t necessarily have to read a 500-page book nor follow some elaborate plan. The first thing that you need to focus on is the basics:

Shared Values

When two people have shared values, it means that they are heading the same direction. For example, if a couple values family, then most probably marriage and kids will be in the picture. And, both will work hard to make this happen. It’s important to have shared values, even though your skills and traits are opposites.

Complimenting Skills

Each one of us likes to do things in a certain way. How person A acts may be totally different from person B, but if their skills are complementing, then they can make a great couple. All they have to do is realize that their skills complement each other, and not try to change how the other person does things.

Mutual Respect

The final ingredient is mutual respect. If you want to have a relationship that will stand the test of time, you have to respect your partner. This respect will make you avoid acts like cheating or cursing out your partner during arguments.

All of these three ingredients are pretty common in the successful relationships of people around you. When you understand and hold on tight to these three, you will slowly change your perspective, then your actions. For more tips about making the strongest relationships, read other posts on the blog.