My tiny salary would cover the rent of an apartment with a narrow staircase and dog poop on the ground floor, or a dark house that shared its walls with neighbouring houses and had its three rooms in a row. I became a paying guest at a gentle couple’s home, choosing to share the room with whoever would come after us, settling for the single cot for myself and my daughter, because that was all I could afford....
In yet another film, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Charlie befriends Sam and her stepbrother Patrick in High School, but their friendship comes in the way of their feelings for each other. Most of us would relate to such times when we would keep chatting most of the day with a person we met a month or two back, asking each other about music and people. In our mind, this is usually the part where you are getting to know the person....
I moved to New Delhi after my father’s death. To earn a better life and get away from the pain and grief. My job kept me on my toes 5 to 6 days a week, and weekends were to stay locked up in my tiny one-bedroom apartment. A few months passed and as winter approached, so did loneliness. I did not realize when I crept into the clutch of depression....
To find out how to confront a cheater as you go through the motions of disbelief, grief, and trauma, we reached out to psychologist Jayant Sundaresan. He said, “For some people, cheating is like an addiction. But that doesn’t mean they can’t mend their ways or tame their addiction. In all probability, they can control it unless and until they are intoxicated and aren’t in the right state of mind....
Some people seem to be effortlessly likable. As a consequence, many of us often wonder if they were just born like that or if they learned the behaviors that, over time, helped them become so charming and well-liked. The answer is maybe some people were born like that, while some weren’t; however, that’s not what truly matters. What you should focus on is the idea that, as Brianna Wiest mentioned in Forbes, likability is a skill you can develop over time....
So, it’s over. A while ago, everything was fine. You two enjoyed each other and always had a great time together. Maybe you were casually dating, or maybe your relationship was serious and you were living together. Now, you have tears running down your face. It feels like the end of the world, and you feel miserable. Lonely. You’re feeling a bizarre combination of negative emotions. Guilt, insecurity, anger, sadness, you name it....
College is the single best opportunity for most guys to pick up girls. The chances of you being in the regular vicinity of hot girls are the highest in college. It always goes downhill from there. So if you are in college and reading this, take action. NOW! 10 Best Ways To Impress A College Girl The great thing about college is that your social life is always abuzz. With very little or no worries at all, friends around you all the time and parties whenever you want them, it’s hard to imagine anything better....
The beginning of a relationship is an exciting time filled with intense passion and love. It’s all rainbows, roses, and butterflies. Everything feels light and easy, and you can’t stop gushing over how perfect your partner is. At this point, you’re pretty much convinced that they will be your life partner. Then, somewhere along the way, that high begins to fade away, and problems start to rear their ugly head....
The moment you start experiencing a relationship burnout and lose yourself in it, you need to take some time off. I know that there comes a point when you ask yourself if you’re being taken for granted or if you’re being clingy? It depends on how the relationship and your feelings developed. Maybe your partner isn’t giving you the attention that you crave or maybe they aren’t initiating texts or calls....
And then we knock at Google’s door to ask, “How to trust someone again after they lied?” Our trust and faith in someone are like a mirror. You can still see the broken lines after gluing the pieces together. Quite similarly, when trust is broken in a relationship, you are left with the scars of betrayal. Learning how to trust your partner again becomes a daunting challenge. But sometimes, people genuinely regret breaking the trust of a dear one....
The third-year into their marriage, she confided in me about the lack of sexual life between them. There was a lot of sexual tension between us, and from the next month, we have been in a secret intimate relationship. I do not want to keep living this secret life as I know it’s wrong, and because I am cheating my brother. I want to settle down and as much as I may love my brother’s wife, I know even if the reality is ever known to all, marrying her will be impossible....
Slowly I started liking a guy from another caste. I told my parents about him. But they are strictly against it they are not ready to meet him. They don’t believe in love. It was a shock for them that I fell in love with someone after my engagement and that too he is not from our caste. They are not willing to accept the fact that that I am engaged but I fell in love with someone else....
It all depends on what he wrote in his last text and his expectations. If you ignore his texts because he did the same thing to you then he’ll receive the right message. He will notice that you have set your boundaries and that you are giving him the same energy. In this situation, he will try to contact you again either because of his pride or his feelings. Yet, if you ignore him on purpose to get his attention he might pull away faster than texting you back....
How can I bring myself to admit I don’t love my husband anymore? How do you know you don’t love someone anymore? Well, the harsh reality is that the signs are all there, we just fail to see them, rather, we live in denial that this is actually happening to us. Even more so, when you’re actually falling out of love with someone who you thought you’d be with forever....
Love, in a relationship, especially a man-woman one, follows its own rhythms, independent of the will of the lover. We can neither know its arrival or departure, nor can we predict its source, and to know its trajectory seems even more far-fetched. In fact it wouldn’t be too preposterous to say that we continually surprise our own selves with regard to the way we experience or feel love. While we may be able to temper our response to it based on propriety or societal acceptability, none of us can claim that we can control the feeling itself and that is what makes ‘love’ at once so charming as well as elusive!...
Fantasy chits This game is easy and needs very little paraphernalia. All you need is a pen, a few blank chits and a bowl. You and your lover need to write five chits each with a fantasy you have, one fantasy on one chit. Mix up the chits well in the bowl and both select one each. The fun part is to discover what could be your partner’s fantasy which he/she wishes to fulfil tonight....
You need to play your cards just right to attract an alpha male. An alpha male is like your favorite cocktail, if made right, it tastes delicious, but too much or too little of any ingredient can ruin the whole cocktail. An alpha male is his life together. He is confident, domineering, capable, and is likely to earn very well. In these very qualities lies the answer to what type of woman is an alpha male attracted to....
The fact that male depression after divorce is rarely talked about shows how hard it can be for men to cope with the end of a marriage, heal and move on. Besides, notions of toxic masculinity that propagate stereotypes such as men don’t cry only make it harder for men to process and deal with their emotions in a healthy way. Men have been conditioned to suppress their emotional and negative feelings....
(As told to Shanaya Agarwal) The first time my fiancee abused me Tania (name changed) and I went to college together. We were mismatched in every way. She was robust, tall and rode a bike. I was thin and the nerd in the class. She would hang out at the canteen with her huge gang but I would be at the library most of the time. She even tried cannabis regularly at the college terrace which I came to know much later....
I often wake up early on the days after she manages to spend the night with me and watch her sleep. She has this characteristic fragrance, an alluring mix of the fragrances of her body, sweat, breath and her perfume, which makes it impossible for me not to make love to her. Over and over. On such mornings, however, I control that urge and just gaze at her. I know that she sleeps peacefully when she’s beside me, and I hate anything that disrupts her sleep, be it an alarm or a phone call....
