Relationship

If you are out of ideas on how to make your partner happier and more delighted, using the following hacks can make your relationship stronger. These strategies were taken from couples on the internet who gave some advice on how they strengthened their relationship, and it could easily be used in your everyday life without much effort.

Sometimes, watching television can have a negative influence on people, especially children. But there’s also a good side of it that adults can benefit from. According to several studies, watching TV can be a healthy way to save a collapsing relationship.

Research shows that simple habits like staying in contact during the day and going to bed at the same time can help your relationship flourish. Although that may seem obvious, many therapists and psychologists tell us how important these little actions actually are for creating closeness and trust. Find a way that works for your relationship dynamic and start practicing these habits.

From a young age, most of us have heard that we should find the right person. However, this has been proven somewhat wrong according to a study. Now we understand why we should shift our focus from finding “the one” to actually working on a relationship.

People say that a mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. But what if, as time goes by, you become more and more like her? Over the years, a mother’s relationship with her children can grow to become something very different than what it was at first. As she grows older, children grow wiser, and after a while, in most cases, the roles are reversed. For example, think about something your mother always used to tell you. That’s probably something you tell her very often now.

According to research, telling “white lies” can actually help build trust in a relationship. Scientists say that people would very often prefer you to have good intentions and lie, rather than to hear you tell the truth for its own sake. This means that when you want to protect your partner’s feelings or in some other way benefit them, you are allowed to tell a lie and not feel guilty about it.

Everyone wants their relationship to work, but sometimes we need to take drastic measures, say we’ve had enough, and move on. But to know which signs are red flags can be difficult. After all, we do not want to simply give up when there could be a good thing going. Still, in some cases it’s better to close the book.

At the beginning of any relationship, people tend to think that it’s going to last forever. Later, to our regret or happiness, real life puts everything in its place. However, there are universal ways to find out whether your relationship is going to be everlasting or not.

We all probably have some doubts regarding our relationship from time to time. But how can we actually understand that our relationship is worth working on? How can we know that this very person is just what we need? Try to read these simple statements and ask yourself, “Do we follow these rules?”

Any relationship is a risk, and we’d all like to understand at the very beginning how strong and happy it will be. But it’s impossible to predict this in the early stages. Still, there are many signs that show if a relationship will remain harmonious and last a long time. Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D. is a co-founder of a noncommercial organization that deals with the propaganda of rational thinking and offers a wise approach to making decisions, and he has outlined them to help others.

Dating resembles a roller coaster experience. At times, it’s enjoyable, occasionally uncomfortable, yet the outcome remains uncertain until you give it a shot. Fortunately, if something awkward happens in your relationship, you can still craft an amusing tweet from it!

According to researchers, an age difference that is bigger than 10 years increases the chances of divorce by 39%. Despite this fact, love doesn’t seem to care about age gaps, and many people have healthy and fulfilling relationships with partners considerably older or younger than them. One such example is supermodel Heidi Klum and her husband, Tom Kaulitz, who is more than 16 years her junior.

There are a few reasons why any relationship is hard to maintain, and one of them is a lack of conflict management. Many people get into fights and disagreements and are afraid to sit down and resolve everything in a friendly manner. Also, we usually have high expectations that are very often not managed well. However, there are people out there that don’t let any problems stand in their way of keeping their relationships alive and strong.

Sometimes men want to keep a relationship private, especially at the beginning. But before you assume this is negatively motivated, know that things aren’t always as they seem. Among the reasons why they like to keep their relationships more private could be a concern for friends and family and the need to make everyone happy. Bright Side compiled 10 reasons why men may want to keep a relationship a secret in order to show readers that understanding is the key to communication.

Though the “after-the-honeymoon” phase of a relationship has nothing to do with what’s depicted in romantic books and movies, getting to know your partner’s sense of humor and quirks is an unbeatable experience. All because love hides in small things like in trying to get you out of bed with the help of potato chips or in leaving pasta messages on the dining room table.

If you instantly fall in love without really knowing a person, if you can’t stop thinking about someone, if your mood depends entirely on whether your love interest called you today, then you are prone to unhealthy emotional dependence. It is usually a trait of people who don’t have enough love for themselves and feel the need to seek it from the outside. It turns into a vicious circle of toxic relationships, but, fortunately, there is a way out of it.

Two young people who truly love each other often end up getting married. Even though parents can sometimes create challenges, many couples find ways to work through them. However, this couple’s situation is different—they’re sort of step siblings, and their parents don’t approve of their engagement.

Many people believe friends are like the family we choose. Sometimes, they feel even closer than our relatives. Today’s story is intriguing: what happens when a best friend asks the other to be their child’s mother? Some might assume best friends often become partners, but here’s a twist—the woman is married, and her husband disagrees with the idea.

We are not always sure whether we’ve done the right thing, especially when it comes to friends or family members. So, some Internet users decided to post their stories online and ask for the opinion of other people to figure out what to do. Read on and tell us whose side you are on.

Navigating the tumultuous waters of betrayal can lead one to make decisions in the heat of the moment. In today’s story, one woman found herself grappling with a whirlpool of emotions. But what follows next wasn’t something she was expecting.

We all have some special memories from our wedding day. Some are sweet, while others may be even bitter, and some may be just comic. But anyway, this day is probably something that gets carved in our memory for the rest of our life. Our today’s heroine is a woman, whose memories about her special day turned out to be something that she wishes she could erase completely. She wrote us a letter, where she shared her story that took the most unexpected turn right on a significant day.

Being deceived within a relationship can have significant and lasting effects, particularly when it involves deeply personal topics like a partner's fertility. When trust is broken in such an intimate context, it can lead to profound emotional pain and damage the foundation of the relationship. A poignant example surfaced recently on Reddit, where a husband poured out his anguish upon uncovering years of deceit.

Every woman with kids would probably be fuming if some other person approached her and said that her child must call them “mother.” The same happened to our heroine, Rebecca, who’s 34 and who’s pregnant with her 1st baby. But the things are even worse in her situation, because it’s her mother-in-law who puts forward such absurd demands. Rebecca wrote to us and told us her whole story, that made us have a lot of emotions, too.

Many people anonymously share their secrets to lighten their emotional load. These secrets, though seemingly harmless, can be still heavy on the minds of those carrying them. These confessions remind us of the human need to share burdens and find comfort in the virtual world.