We all know you can't trust someone who cheats and lies. But other surprising—and sometimes more subtle—behaviors can make someone untrustworthy.

Everyone needs appreciation in relationships to feel his or her efforts are acknowledged and not taken for granted.

Congratulations! You’ve made it past the casual stage, and you’re now in a relationship. New relationships are scary and exciting, and they are also incredibly fun because you’re getting to know each other.

There is only one way to know if your partner is cheating: It is not by thumbing through his/her text messages and emails. To really get down to the truth, you have to ask your spouse directly.

We need money for all our needs, especially in our relationships which are the most important human investment. The Akan axiom, ‘Sika ye mogya’, meaning ‘money is blood’ of life shows how important we see money.

At 26, it can seem like everyone else but you are happily matched up with their forever persons. This is the age when you start seeing your friends posting their engagement photos, wedding photos, and even baby photos all over social media.

If you’ve just been broken up with, you may be wondering what happened. When a man breaks up with his partner, there could be any number of reasons for the split. Something about your behavior could be reason or it could be something completely out of your control.

The start of a new relationship should be the happiest time of your life, but if your new man's behaviour leaves you worried that he may already have a girlfriend, there are some simple signs to look for. 

Human nature is competitive, assertive, selfish and domineering and these attributes in relationships lead to conflicts. Conflicts may be physical, verbal, mental, sexual or social but the commonest lovers experience is verbal, which is normally referred to as ‘fights’.

The road to a fulfilling, enduring relationship is almost always littered with a few attempts that turned out to be unfulfilling and unenduring. 

It's totally natural for you to spill your guts to your girlfriends about what's going on in your relationship — hell, it's practically a right of passage at brunch or book club — but that doesn't mean you should share everything.

I know many an otherwise open-minded woman who swears that she would never date someone shorter than she is, and I used to count myself among them.

Have you ever found yourself wondering what exactly is so appealing about being in a relationship in the first place? Once the initial butterflies quit fluttering and that can’t-keep-your-hands-off-one-another feeling fades, it’s clear to see that some people — no matter how romantically inclined or sexually attracted they may be — just aren’t really the relationship type.

Are you hiding a big secret from your partner? If so, it’s probably burning a hole through your soul and causing extreme guilt and anxiety.

Women fall out of love every day. However, the loss of these loving feelings doesn’t happen suddenly. Usually one or both partners get too comfortable and stop paying as much attention to each other as they used to.

Relationships are complex, regardless of you and your partner’s personality styles. But depending on which traits you both exhibit more or less of, they could determine how good or bad the relationship will be.

Some blame an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality for why many long-distance relationships seem to fail, but recent studies have found that the separation can be a great advantage for couple satisfaction. One thing is clear though— it's never easy to keep a long-distance relationship afloat, and it can often take extra finesse to keep the spark alive.

In a perfect world, you could control everything. Your commute would be traffic-free, your partner would do whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted it, and Nick Viall would not be on The Bachelor. But that’s not how things work—and most of us are well aware of this.