Hate The Relationship With Your Parents? How to Deal With Difficult Parents

An emotional scene in a warm, modern living room showing tension between an adult daughter of color and her older mother. The daughter, appearing sad and frustrated, looks down with furrowed brows and crossed arms, while the mother stands behind her with an angry, judgmental expression. The image captures the strain and distance between them.

How to heal, grieve, and set boundaries with your parents as an adult When the Relationship with a Parent Feels Strained How to heal, grieve, and set boundaries with your parents as an adult When the Relationship with a Parent Feels Strained How to heal, grieve, and set boundaries with your parents as an adult […]

How to Reconnect When You Feel More Like Roommates Than Lovers

Couple hugging and kissing ear, smiling and holding each other as they reconnect after feeling distant in their relationship.

The relationship isn’t dead. You’re just…disconnected. You didn’t wake up one morning and decide to stop feeling close and start feeling like roommates. It happened gradually. One rushed morning. One missed kiss goodbye. One “we’ll talk about it later” that never happened. Over time, the things that once made you feel alive together faded into […]

Three Signs You Shouldn’t Have Sex Right Now (Even If You Love Them)

Too often, we focus on all the reasons we should be having sex. We study how to set the mood, find new positions, and bring back the spark when things start to fizzle. But I’m a firm believer that the best sex often starts with saying no. Before we can fully make space for the […]

The Pomegranate Theory: What Love Really Looks Like Beneath the Skin

TikTok may have turned peeling pomegranates into a love language, but the real magic of this metaphor runs much deeper. When I first saw the pomegranate theory circulating online, the comment sections were full of people swooning: “He peeled a pomegranate for me without me asking…that’s love!”And yes, it’s sweet. But if we stop there, […]

Crushes and Relationships: What They Reveal and How to Navigate Them

Crushes don’t disappear when we grow up or commit to someone, and when handled thoughtfully, they can illuminate our needs and even deepen intimacy. You’ve felt it before: the secret smile, the inside joke, the “just because” thought that lingers longer than you expected. Suddenly, there’s a spark, and it feels delicious. But what happens […]

Redefining Sex and Pleasure: How to Reconnect with Your Body and Desire

If you’re like me, you never got the course on how to have and maintain an amazing sex life. You learned bits and pieces of what “great” sex was from high school whispers, awkward health classes, rom-com storylines, and maybe a few late-night Google searches. And somewhere along the way, we picked up a script […]

Your Friendship Needs Will Change—And That’s a Sign of Growth

We’re taught to believe that if a friendship is real, it should last forever. But here’s what rarely gets said: even the most meaningful relationships may not fit forever. Your needs in friendship will change because you will change. Why Friendship Needs Shift As you grow through new seasons, parenthood, career moves, grief, marriage, or […]

Dating After Divorce: How to Know When You’re Ready to Begin Again

You met. You fell in love. And a little time later you said, “I do.” You thought, this is my life forever. But forever unraveled slowly…in misunderstandings that hardened into fights, in silences that stretched too long, resentment that piled higher than either of you could climb. Eventually, the weight was too much, and you […]

The Real Reason Your Sex Life Feels Stale — And How to Spark Connection Again

Ever stand in front of the pantry, staring, knowing you’re hungry but not having a clue what you want? That’s what a lot of people’s sex lives feel like. You want connection. You crave intimacy. You even like sex in theory. But when it’s time to actually get in the mood, something doesn’t click. Your […]