You have often heard about drug addiction, alcohol addiction and smoking addiction. However, have you ever heard about addictive relationships? Unfortunately, addictive relationships are a very real scenario and several couples exist in one without even realizing it. It’s tough to imagine that you could love someone to the extent that it harms you and your own sense of self. Guess what? It happens, and sometimes so insidiously that you have no idea....

But is a gaming addiction really a problem since your partner isn’t technically doing anything wrong? It’s not like they’re cheating or being abusive, they’re just stuck to a screen for hours on end. However, once gaming starts taking precedence over the relationship, the negative effects start trickling in. For starters, the other partner may start feeling neglected, and the emotional connection may suffer as a result. Think about it, when a video game addiction starts dictating how your partner spends all their time, you’re going to feel left out, aren’t you?...

It may seem like you’re ending up with more questions than answers and confronting your partner while in this conflicting state of mind doesn’t have a high probability of being fruitful. To try and help you understand what you can expect from your disloyal SO and the things you now need to do, we’ve brought in counseling psychologist Kavita Panyam, (Masters in Psychology and international affiliate with the American Psychological Association), who has been helping couples work through their relationship issues for over two decades....

Compatibility is an integral factor that contributes to the success of a relationship. Whether you are in a budding romance or are about to tie the knot, knowing the level of compatibility with your partner can save you from the turbulences while onboarding the flight of love. In the spectrum of astrology, certain signs qualify as the best zodiac couples while some would be better off staying away from each other....

This is ego coming into play, and usually ignoring him pokes his ego a little too much. If you’re completely unimportant to him, he won’t notice if you stop contacting him. On the other hand, if you have the slightest bit of importance in his life, he will surely notice the absence of your communication. If your intention is to get his attention by not texting him, then not texting him will work, but a lot goes through his head when you don’t contact him back....

The five characters in this story are: JV Rajan: A 34 -year -old male internet addict working with ibibo.com Rekha TP: Rajans wife, who has mothered a two and a half-year-old baby called Rhea with Rajan and has just now entered the 6th year of marriage. Priyanka Chopra: Rajans love interest. A 29-year-old Delhi girl who also loves Rajan Biju Anand: Rekhas love interest. He first proposed to Rekha when they were in standard 10 together....

Who Is A Sugar Baby? In modern-day parlance, it’s a young girl who is studying in college or university but can’t afford the lifestyle she wants to have. So she gets a wealthy man, who is much older, established and loaded and who showers her with expensive gifts and even cash to help her live the lifestyle she wants. There’s no attachment or love involved here just a symbiotic relationship where she gets her financial need met and he gets a young, pretty girl for company....

Sexting is more daring than real-life sex. The truth is, not everyone is comfortable in getting down to the dirty details while working or when you are with friends. On average, people sext while involved in their day to day business. A simple “I have a surprise for you tonight” is suggestive enough and can keep your man wondering the entire day what it is that is in store for him tonight....

This is part of our ongoing series which aims at seeing sexual harassment and assault from all angles, without gender stereotypes. While men continue to be portrayed as sexual predators and oppressors in a partnership, marriage or relationship, we need to open our eyes to the reality that society has changed, and the issue of harassment is not just restricted to women. Men Being Sexually Harassed Finding it to be too embarrassing to speak about, the men being sexually harassed today, never come out and voice their experiences and struggles....

One-sided love is usually punctuated by tears, heartbreak and long-term suffering as people in such a relationship find it hard to move on. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil depicted the heartbreak and loss that comes with one-sided love. Nonetheless, we see Shah Rukh Khan as Saba’s ex-husband romanticizing one-sided love. In the course of the movie, he explains why unrequited love can sometimes be stronger than love where there is reciprocation....

However, over time it became one full of tension and silence. We slowly drifted apart, as we both wanted different things in life. We tried to compromise on our respective dreams for the other, but it only made us bitter, angry and more frustrated with each other. Small silly issues became huge fights, with silence reigning in the house thereafter for days. After we finally decided to separate, I decided to be the one to move out, but it took me a few months to find a place which fit my budget and my requirements....

No, dating a girl from work doesn’t mean you’ll constantly be getting emails from HR about your low output. If you know how to navigate the waters, your life partners at work might just turn out to be lucky for you. So, if something like “I like a girl at work” has been on your mind ever since she joined your team, there shouldn’t be anything stopping you from trying to woo her....

5 Ways To Deal With A Difficult Mother-In-Law I hail from Satara, a small town in Maharashtra and a community where love marriages are off-limits. So, I never dated a guy ever. Going out with a guy or even online dating were things I could only dream of. My married friends who came home during summers brought with them an avalanche of complaints about how bad their husband’s mother treated them....

Even if you haven’t been able to build a rapport with them, you have to find a way to co-exist with them. Because otherwise, it shall always trouble you and can even come between your relationship with your partner. Avoidance is not always the greatest idea if you want to find a way to sort out issues with them. So, what can you do instead? We’re here to help you figure that out with these tips for dealing with in-laws....

Jealousy and insecurity in a relationship are normal but to an extent. When your girlfriend talks to other guys, most will feel a bit jealous and wouldn’t know what to do about it. But talking to other guys while in a relationship is normal. It isn’t out of the ordinary for most guys to say and feel things like “I get jealous when my girlfriend talks to other guys!” or “How to trust my girlfriend around others?...

A few months ago — after the first COVID lockdown ended — Nadine, a good friend of mine, broke up with her boyfriend. They had been on and off for nearly a year, and being quarantined for almost two months was the last straw. Theirs wasn’t the only relationship that struggled to survive during and after the lockdown. Another couple of friends, Mary and Mark, recently broke up. From what Mary told me, they had been arguing a lot during the last months, and spending twenty-four hours a day together in a small studio apartment during the lockdown didn’t help....

There was a time when people met in cafes, bookstores, and bars. In this intimate setting, if someone did end up saying something awkward, chances are they’d both laugh it off and things took off from there. But Tinder is a different ball game altogether. Here, you are trying to impress (or avoid) a person you have never seen. The way you respond to pick-up lines over text kind of makes or breaks the fate of your online dating trajectory....

However, this balancing act of building a strong relationship without losing yourself is tricky to achieve. Lean on your partner for support too much and you risk becoming co-dependent. Attach too much importance to your independence and you may come across as distant and withdrawn in your relationship. Healthy dependency between partners is the hallmark for a balanced relationship. Definitely, this is a relationship dynamic to aspire to. But what is interdependence is a relationship?...

Things get especially difficult when you’re leaving a marriage with kids, forcing you to contemplate, “Is it better to divorce or stay unhappily married for kids?” It’s easy to say, “Be brave and walk out”, but there’s a lot to think about since you’re not just leaving a relationship but an entire life you’ve built with your spouse. Finances, custody of children, where you might live – all of these come into serious consideration, making it rather knottier than your average breakup....

Related reading: How living with invalid in-laws can test a marriage Why should it be a compulsion on women to live with the in-laws? Deepmala Dutta Unfair. First of all, living with parents after attaining adulthood is a sham. It’s so blown out of proportion in India. Then after marriage, the in-law factor doesn’t help the couple to grow interdependent, because there will always be someone else to help or create trouble....