How do you know if your relationship is healthy or unhealthy? Often when we are dating someone we are blinded by “love.” We can’t see their unhealthy, controlling behaviors. Here are some warning signs that your relationship is not healthy: He Can’t Accept No When your boyfriend refuses to let you say no, it is…
Tough Love
“My family believes in tough love…” I cringe when I hear women say this, and I hear it a lot. It’s difficult to hear, because often what follows is a woman’s story of her family’s actions that sound more “tough” than “love.” What her family considers tough love was neither patient, nor kind. Tough love…
Abusive Relationships and Increased Sexual Risk
–NOTE: The following words are from an article for Science Daily. Click on the link at the end of the post to read the article in its entirety.– Abusive men put female partners at greater sexual risk, study finds. “Men who were physically and sexually abusive to women were more likely than non-abusive men to engage…