Elizabeth Stone

There is nothing quite like missing someone terribly and desperately trying to keep your connection fresh, when all you’re able to share are phone calls.

One of the scariest things that can happen to your relationship is when the man who you felt such a great connection with, who you felt so close to, starts to pull away.

Feeling is why we do EVERYTHING in our lives. We spend our days striving to feel a certain way. We want to feel the satisfaction of sex, love, attention, admiration, respect, and so on.

After a breakup, it’s common to look back over what happened and wonder how to get your ex to forgive you.

Ever broken up with someone and wished you could take it all back? You might WANT to get over it, but you heart seems to have other ideas.

Often in an effort to right the wrongs of a failed relationship, an ex will try to change all of the things that their ex didn’t like about them.

Too often we think that men are a limited time offer, where if we resist what they want in the moment, they will slip away forever. Nonsense.

Having standards isn’t simply expecting that things will go a certain way, it’s focused attention on what you really WANT, then making the effort to change or get rid of anything that doesn’t meet your standards.

While a fling with a bad boy can be fun, bad boys are the junk food of the dating world. Good for a quick bite in a pinch, but bad for your long term health.

Sometimes the most intelligent of us fall victim to the idea that we can “try” ourselves into better relationships with people who frankly, will never give us the kind of love that we really want.

For all our decent times together, there was one glaring problem. He didn’t really “get” my sense of humor.

I understand the temptation to get really excited when you finally meet someone you like.

Just make sure that you aren’t doing things that send people running for the hills without realizing it.