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Pleasurable feelings come and go, but genuine happiness is both natural and unplanned. Everyone experiences significant moments of happiness at times. Maybe you got a raise or won a race — and if you could bottle and sell the euphoric feeling of falling in love, you’d be a millionaire. During these situations, you might truly believe that sustained happiness comes from these exterior events. Since the mind relaxes during these experiences, it gives you a mistaken sense of relief....

You know you can’t force someone to feel what they don’t, but knowing this doesn’t lessen the pain of unfulfilled love. Sometimes, though, it helps to know you’re not alone. And you’re definitely not. Most of us will experience this pain at some point in our lives — many of us more than once. So, we’ve collected the following unrequited love quotes from others who have been where you are....

You don’t want to propose too soon and scare your partner away, but you also don’t want to wait so long that they lose interest. So how do you know when the timing is right? How soon is too soon to get engaged? There are plenty of signs to look for to see if you’re both ready for marriage, but there are also some red flags that indicate you may not be quite there yet....

Do you look back to a time before a particular decision and wish you could go back and choose differently? While not all of your choices have negatively impacted your life, you sometimes wonder why a single ill-advised choice should hold so much power. Some choices affect more of your life than others. But every time you face two very different options, your choice is likely to impact one area of your life more than others....

Whether you want to learn just enough to decide whether or not to ask for a second date, or you’re ready to ask some deep personal questions, you’ll find some gems here. These questions will make your conversation more interesting without making either of you uncomfortable. It should go without saying that you won’t find any cheesy pick-up lines in this article, but there is a time for humor — preferably at no one’s expense....

This familiar adage sadly often rings true. It’s not just a romantic notion, but there’s some scientific evidence behind it. What may be more important than whether we hurt the ones we love is why we do so and what we can do to ease that pain. Can You Hurt Someone and Still Love Them? You can. It’s much more common than you might think. The reasons why we hurt the ones we love might be rooted in how close we feel to them....

Not too many years ago, the term “coach” referred to the person encouraging you to run faster or throw further on a sports field. Today if someone says, “I’m working with a coach,” they’ve likely hired someone to help them facilitate change and reach their goals. As a certified life coach myself and someone who has had a coach, I can attest to the powerful benefits of coaching. Whatever you want to achieve, coaching helps you real your goals faster, with more clarity and confidence....

You don’t have to put up with the manipulation, gaslighting, embellished half-truths, and outright lies. With the right approach, you can frighten a narcissist and enforce boundaries. Although they always seem to have a comeback that makes you look unreasonable, they are not invulnerable. You probably can’t improve them as human beings, but you might succeed in getting a narcissist to do what you want — which can range from pulling their weight to leaving you alone....

And is there at least a chance that the feeling is mutual? Or is your need for excitement or novelty pushing him away? It’s not unusual for couples to start out mad for each other, only for one of them to decide, at some point, that their partner has gotten boring. In this post, we’re focusing on boyfriends whose boring behavior has you wondering whether your relationship is doomed. When did he get so boring?...

We know how challenging it can be to write letters to your kids. Self-doubt creeps in, and you wonder if the words you can think of will mean the same to them as they do to you. After all, you’ve made mistakes (every parent does), and you want your daughter to know how proud you are of the woman she’s becoming. You’re just not sure where to begin. How Can I Express My Love to My Daughter?...

What if I had done this? What if I never did that — where would I be? Questions that focus on the past and the “could-have-been” feel paralyzing. Although the past is fixed, it does contain lessons. The future, however, holds all possibilities. If you wonder what to do when your life is a complete disaster, know that you possess tools and wisdom from your past to build a better future....

Every day, I’d take the bus from my brownstone on the Upper West Side to my office in midtown Manhattan. Every day, the bus was jam-packed with people, and you were lucky if you were able to snag a seat. Most of the time, I held on to a pole or the back of a seat, swinging around like a monkey (wearing high heels) every time the bus lurched to a stop....

It’s a relationship you are meant to be in, and often it’s a very spiritual connection. Karmic relationships can be all-consuming and passionate, but they can also be turbulent and challenging. In short, karmic ties are intense! If you familiarize yourself with the karmic relationship signs below, you can identify if you’re in one of these unique connections. And it’s worth knowing because karmic relationships break through limitations in life if you nurture them well....

Whether you’ve been wronged by someone else or certain choices have taken you down a bad path, it’s in our nature to fixate on blaming or feeling sorry for yourself. This pattern might feel inescapable. Similar to a monkey swinging through a forest, grasping vine after vine, humans have a tendency to grab onto one self-pitying thought and swing to the next. It’s not until we are deep into the dark jungle, feeling too scared to jump down, that we start looking for a way out....

And if you can’t accurately or comfortably describe them, how are you supposed to manage your feelings? Understanding your emotions, their triggers, how they affect you, and how to manage them healthily and effectively are behaviors everyone should strive to improve. You can use feeling charts to do just that! What Is a Feeling Chart? While they vary in format, a feelings chart is a wheel, chart, or another graphic that labels different emotions or feelings....

You may feel like you have exhausted your conversation ideas on the first date, but that’s simply not true. You just need to be willing to go a little deeper. Second date topics of conversation allow you to explore each other’s personalities a little more. You have wider options for what to talk about on a second date because you can move out of the “safe zone” that people tend to stay in on first dates....

To figure out the cause of her behavior, you may want to watch her for signs of jealousy in a woman. She might have decided that you pose a threat to one of her relationships or her position in life. When this is the case, her insecurity can provoke vindictive or passive-aggressive behavior. Why Would a Girl Be Jealous of Another Girl? Everyone is vulnerable to feeling jealous when they perceive that a person can take away something or someone important to them....

As a guy, you want to break the ice for building mutual attraction, and girls enjoy you asking about their feelings. So when you’re really into a girl, you need some flirty questions for her to stoke the flames of romance, whether you’re talking in person or texting. Good flirty questions to ask a girl need to be more than just pick-up lines and tell you a lot about her personality....

Instead, infidelity is linked with bad decisions, improper situations, and inadequate communication with a partner. Surprisingly, cheating is so common that it is sometimes hard to separate infidelity and serial adultery. Recent statistics from the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy confirm that over 57% of men and 54% of women admit to cheating. And 36% of men and women admit to having an affair with a co-worker. These numbers are strongly believed to be widely underreported....

Since cancer is a water sign, folks who fall under the “crab” stars can be difficult to read. Although, they’re also known for being nurturing, dependable, and sentimental. So to help you wrap your head around your situation, today we’re breaking down astrological signs that a Cancer man has feelings for you. What do they say? How do they act? We’re unpacking it all below. Let’s dive in. How Do Cancer Men Express Their Love?...