Living Together Before Marriage

Something my college prep teacher once said was never to room with your best friend, has stuck with me all these years. Hanging out with someone all the time is fine and dandy but when they put their tooth-brush on the sink and leave a mess that bothers you it might not be a good …

Dating a Single Parent

So once upon a time I dated the "hot" girl at work that had a couple of kids. Going into this relationship I was the typical young dumb 20 something that didn't think about the commitment that went into dating someone with children. Here are a few things that may help you if you're considering …

Holiday Hot Hand

So this is a really quick post that I forgot to add-on Easter.... So if your on any of those dating apps and you don't always go on, it is important to log in on a holiday. I have found and you can do some research that people get lonely on holidays when they don't …

Cheap things to do

So we have all had those times where we are broke as a joke without a nickel for a coke, but still would like to hang out with that special. So I came up with  small list of things that I have done that got me to hang with a special person but at the …

Who Picks up the check?

There is something that is commonly talked about when it goes into the roles of men and women about who pays for a meal? I as a male may view it differently than a female but will just give you something to think about. For a long time it has always been the males role …

The Holiday Split

Well since it is a holiday weekend I thought it was a good time to discuss how you split the time between you and your other half's families. This is something that is usually hard at the start of a relationship because each person wants to pull their way a bit and it may start …

Sharing

The most important thing in a relationship is sharing. Sharing the feelings you have for each other and feeling like you have each others back. I recently had a situation that happened in my relationship that brought things to light where sharing would have alleviated a lot of the tension that was going on. My …

Mental Health

This is not going to be a long post but more of a short  food for thought thing. With all the recent things happening in the news with gun violence and mental health issues you should be aware of things your other half is doing. The purpose of this post isn't about the whole guns …

Whose dreams?

The problem that a lot of couples face at some point in time is, what really matters in the relationship? What compromises can we make where both people are on a level ground and there is going to be no love lost? I think that just about everything can be worked through suck as politics, …

Why you need to Argue

For the most people don't like to argue with their significant other, myself included. We all would like for everything to be gumdrops and roses all the time living on a good feeling high. But as life will have that isn't always the case and I am going to tell you that it is good …