The first step to leaving a toxic situation is analyzing your relationship and identifying red flags. You should then come up with a plan for where to break up with them — ideally, in a public place.

Healthy relationships are built on trust, respect, and independence. But when control, manipulation, and emotional pressure ...

Are you in a toxic relationship? You did not get into your relationship to be treated poorly, ignored, or abandoned. Being abused or denigrated, subjected to reckless spending, deprived of a sex life, ...

Love should feel warm, steady, and grounding. When it explodes like fireworks on day three, something deserves a closer look. At the beginning of a new relationship, intensity can feel intoxicating.

A speed-dating study published in Personal Relationships suggests that opposites do not necessarily attract regarding extreme personalities. Evidence indicates that highly kind individuals never ...

Many people say “toxic,” but do not even know what it means. Here’s how to recognise the patterns that make a relationship toxic. We throw the word ‘toxic’ around a lot, yet most people can’t tell ...

For partners willing to treat each other with respect, I believe those relationships are worth the work to make them better. I am all for trying to save intimate relationships and my book, Why Can't ...