Adultery, infidelity, cheating… call it what you will, is one of the biggest causes of relationship break ups. But sometimes, not for the reasons you might think. While it’s generally accepted that the cheated partner in a relationship is going to suffer the after effects, it’s not so easy to accept that for the cheater, there’s often a lot of pain involved also. Hard to believe, but true nevertheless. And often,...

Have you ever given any serious thought to what you want from a relationship? Usually, it’s not something we think about too much until one relationship ends and leaves us so hurt that we promise to be more careful who we trust with out hearts in the future. Up until then most relationships just happen. We drift in and out of them and never stop to really think long and hard about whether they’re fulfilling any deep and meaningful...

I had someone ask me this the other day and you know what? Broken hearts are like every other piece of your body’s anatomy, they heal just the same. Sure, there’s scar tissue, and I have no doubt that the heart takes longer to heal than the rest of your body. But it does heal. Even though sometimes we may fight it. Recovering from a broken heart isn’t something that happens in the same way as recovering from a broken bone...

Without a doubt, the biggest single cause of a relationship breaking up is when one partner has an affair. While a relationship can survive any number of problems, no matter how much trouble or stress they cause, it seems that being cheated on isn’t one of them. That’s not to say that many couples don’t survive affairs. They do. Even though you may think you will never get over the pain and the sheer, mind numbing torture of...