These signs are often easier to spot from the outside than from the inside. When you’re in it, the highs feel electric, the lows feel crushing and the space between can distort your sense of normal.

Toxic relationships are based on conflict, competition, and the need to control. Signs of a toxic relationship include jealousy, blame, and gaslighting. Therapy, as well as self-care and connecting ...

Toxic relationships don’t just affect our emotions — they can rewire the way our nervous system understands love, safety, and connection. Mental Health Counselor and ...

In a world full of human relationships, attraction is often viewed through the lens of positivity. People are drawn to qualities in others that they tend to admire, find sexy, or that complement their ...

Toxic relationships are characterized by various levels of emotional and physical abuse, exploitation, and neglect. The most obvious are the physically abusive ones. The more nebulous are those where ...

It doesn’t always start with yelling or bruises. Sometimes, abuse slips in quietly—disguised as control, masked as love, and dismissed as “just being difficult.” You find yourself second-guessing your ...

Without effective communication, basic empathy, and trust in a relationship, both partners are prone to adopting toxic mindsets, anxiety, and resentment — in ways that are both unproductive for the ...

Addiction touches every interaction in the person caught in its grasp; it does not only affect them. Originally a personal fight, what begins as a war for trust, stability, and emotional connection ...

The phrase “I hate my mother” carries deep emotional weight in a society that expects maternal relationships to be inherently nurturing and loving. Yet for many, the reality of mother-child ...

Certain relationships prevent you from growth. As we step into 2025, it is natural to focus on new goals, refreshed priorities and self-improvement. But in the excitement of envisioning a better ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...