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It’s a decision based on your impulsive decisions or your ex’s post-breakup behavior. That’s something you might predict but sometimes it’s uncontrollable and intrusive thoughts win. The most important thing to ask yourself is if you are breaking the No contact on purpose or accidentally. Sometimes it might be the situation or the people that you are interacting with that make you do it. To be more specific, if you were in a relationship with a narcissistic partner, they might manipulate you to break it....

Dear Ma’am, Six months back I ended up having sex with my Senior Manager at an office offsite. I thought that the one-night stand would be long forgotten. I went back to my work. But he started trying to get close to me. He would inquire things out of me like a lover would – “Did you go to the gym?” “Did you drink?” He even tried calling me. It was strange....

Especially, if you have an anxious attachment style then you tend to start and speculate. Well, the reasons that could have impacted his behavior can be numerous. If a guy doesn’t text you for a day can mean a lot of things. That depends on what type of relationship you have with one another. He might be tired of always initiating the conversation, has a busy day, or just needs more time to contact you....

How a hangover affects you Alcohol is a depressant so it basically slows down your brain activity. It has an immediate physiological effect on your brain, heart, liver and other organs. Since, alcohol triggers the release of dopamine you end up feeling an elevated sense of happiness, satisfaction, and pleasure. But most of all, being drunk to the point where your senses have no control over yourself will lead you to wake up with a maddening hangover and who needs that right?...

All of that “depends on how you handle it and whether you can balance it well with the other people involved,” believes Saumya Tewari. Occasional fling is a good thing as it may keep your mind off things. When you are single and free, you tend to feel bored and may want some change for good. Hridaan loves the way Bineesh uses the word ‘occasional fling’ and not ‘random flings....

“Marriage…mangalsutra…morality – everything has its own place. It occupied a prime position in my life for over two decades. And then I fell! Hard. At my fortieth, everyone proclaimed cheekily, ‘Women get naughty at four-zero-forty!’ Like most other things, this memory, too, was packed away to a desolate corner of the brain. The how or what or why isn’t important at all, but it’ll suffice to say that I embarked on an affair....

In her book she spoke about their strange love where in their lifetime they hardly spoke or even met but were constantly on each other’s mind. In fact, if Draupadi dressed up it was for Karna and no one else, not even Arjun. To think of it if Karna had got his legitimate place among the Pandavas then Draupadi would have been his wife. But love stories that don’t have a destiny are the real love stories, we guess....

I’ve been married to a central government employee for the past ten years. These years have been packed with interesting incidents and anecdotes, in addition to packing and unpacking because of constant transfers. I was born and brought up in cosmopolitan Bangalore. After marriage, we came to Visakhapatnam to stay in a rented house in the suburbs. Our house was situated at the foot of a hill. The small garden in front of the house was full of chameleons and huge lizards....

At some point in our lives, we have had to deal with a guy who plays mind games, or we have been with a woman playing mind games in relationships. It’s nothing short of mental abuse. You will see mind games in every juncture of life. But the most common one is always seen in romantic relationships. What Are Mind Games In Relationships? In simple words, mind games in relationships are calculated and conscious attempts by one partner to psychologically manipulate the other partner....

“My husband looks at other females on Instagram” is a common complaint amongst women. Are you feeling disrespected and insecure because your husband always looks at other women on Instagram? Have you checked his account and discovered he follows a load of hot women who look nothing like you? Not only does he follow them, he comments on their scantily clad photos, letting them know he finds them attractive! Or even worse, he’s sending some of these women private messages trying to arrange a hook-up!...

No texting back to accept their ‘apologies’, not accepting their gifts, avoiding meeting them, blocking them everywhere, not hanging out in groups with mutual friends, or following one another on social media. While doing No Contact with a narcissist or any type really, the biggest concern is if the No Contact will work on your ex and whether your ex will come back after being distant. Yes, he or she will come back....

Our digital era has opened countless avenues in the world of dating. We now have a diverse palette of relationships to choose from. But not all of them are advisable or healthy for us. Hence, exercising caution in attraction is a rule everyone needs to stick to. We’re here to talk about the different (and primarily negative) facets of parasocial relationships. Let’s understand the subject with the guidance of emotional wellness and mindfulness coach Pooja Priyamvada (certified in Psychological and Mental Health First Aid from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Sydney), who specializes in counseling for extramarital affairs, breakups, separation, grief, and loss, to name a few....

Whether you are in a relationship, have just been dating, or are still in the phase of crushing over each other, ladies, get your notebooks out because we are about to tell you how to know if a guy cares about you 29 Sure Signs He Cares Deeply About You When your partner doesn’t have a way with words, there may be days when you are sitting in confusion and asking the universe for signs that someone cares about you deeply while the indicators are right in front of your eyes all along....

Life while single vs life while dating someone can be two worlds apart. A single life brings many freedoms but there are so many more things you have to consider when you’re dating someone. No longer are you your own master and only responsible for your own self. You can no longer let yourself go on the grooming front, you must look decent for your s/o. Money seems to flow out of your hands like water (most millennials complain about this) but at least you get laid regularly, right?...

While the relationship may start on a high note and be all kinds of exciting, the disadvantages of dating a married man soon become apparent. For one, it will never be like a typical relationship. He won’t be able to be by your side through thick and thin, highs and lows, good times and bad. His life with his wife, and children if there are any, will always get in the way of your connection....

In this day and age, when women have more than proved their ability to strike it out on their own, as Kavya Madhavan – herself an extremely popular actress – has shown, this idea that she needed to get married to protect her fair name comes as a bit of a contradiction, an anachronism. Why couldn’t he have said he married her because he truly loved her, respected and needed her, or, for that matter, that ‘they’ loved ‘each other’ and wanted to be together for ever?...

The chocolates and the ice creams, the brownies and the fudges, they can’t all really be toxic, can they? Well, think about it, your last toxic partner wasn’t screaming out “I’m toxic” either, was s/he? You and I both know that at the end of the day, we just can’t keep that muffin down. One oreo begets another and the weighing scale is the friend who’s trying to knock some sense into you, something people in toxic relationships tend to avoid....

Independent women accustomed to making their own life choices often find out that their overprotective boyfriends are way less progressive than they had initially thought. The key to avoiding such toxicity later in the relationship is to notice the red flags early on. And, if your new Tinder date is showing the signs of an overprotective boyfriend, run. Overprotective partners are really, really not worth the trouble. And what are the signs you have an overprotective boyfriend?...

The Best Gift Ideas For Beer Lovers To Impress Beer Snobs Be it an anniversary or a birthday, these unique gift ideas for beer lovers are suitable for every occasion. For those who value their relationship with beer above all else, these gift ideas will make sure they enjoy their passion even more. Ranging from pretty cool gadgets to premium glasses, the gifts for beer drinkers mentioned here will heighten their experience....

Related reading: Why lust is extraordinary to understand love Too late for touch? R, who just turned 50 this year, said, “Coming from where my hubby does, of course, there is no public display of affection at home even though it has been five years since my mother-in-law too passed away. But once, I grabbed his bum while we were walking up the stairs and mind you with no intention of sex (this friend is though a wee bit more charged than her hubby in that department), he scolded me for being teenager-ish....