God created us social beings and inside us are places where only friends can reach. This means you will need friends in all stages in your life - infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

You will also surely need friends in your relationship because a relationship can’t give you everything while a network of friends will give you different support systems.

Getting an ex to fall for you again may seem like an impossible task, but it is possible. To get your ex to fall for you again, you need to think about what killed the relationship in the first place, then find ways to put your best self on display. You will also have to talk to your ex about your feelings and what you want to do about them at some point.

I am a huge fan of Game of Thrones (GoT) and after seeing “An hour of Ice and Fire” where Khaleesi dealt with the sex-crazed and potty-mouthed khans by setting the Dothraki hut ablaze, I was filled with so much excitement that I called a friend, Tiwa to share my expectation for the next episode. As Tiwa picked up the phone and we started talking, I noticed that her responses were curt and her tone flat. I had to end all the GoT talk and ask her what was wrong. She surprisingly broke into tears and started to narrate the story of how her boyfriend had embarrassed her earlier in the day, in front of their friend.

True narcissism isn't just a proclivity to flood everyone's Instagram feed with tons of selfies. It's an extreme obsession with oneself and a need to constantly feel loved and appreciated. There's a huge difference between someone being selfish or having a more-than-healthy appreciation of themselves and someone whose self-obsession might actually be damaging your relationship.

here are times when you’ll get to a point in your relationship where you’ll be desperate for love advice. However, you need to be very careful about where you get your advice. The wrong opinion could end up making things a lot worse.

Relationship expert Evan Marc Katz said you’ll know you got bad advice if it doesn’t work. There’s only one metric to determine whether advice is good: Does it work or not? Believe it or not, there are dozens of respected experts whose opinion will steer you in the complete opposite direction of your actual goals, said Katz. Here are the people you should run away from if they try to give you relationship advice.

One characteristic of the animal kingdom is that males fight over females to pass on their genes. You find this among insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. 

In fact among a species of apes, one in four males is killed by its own kind over territory, more specifically over females. 

In a recent thread on Ask Reddit, the dudes of the forum were asked to divulge the type of compliments they most love receiving — and while some of the answers seemed totally obvious, quite a few of them were actually pretty surprising. The general consensus was that any compliment is a good compliment as long as it's genuine, but when asked to get specific, the answers were completely across the board.

Here are just a few of the things men secretly love to get complimented on.

Parents are not always right. Objections based on racism, classism, religious bias or homophobia are not acceptable. While your parents may have the best of intentions with these types of objections, you need to hold your ground and not give in to their bigotry.

No matter what field you're in — health, engineering, media, education, design, etc. — you (most likely) answer to a higher-up, and FYI, said higher-up is evaluating you daily. And not just your work.

Your boss notices a range of things about you, because her job is, well, to keep an eye on you. Whether you like it or not, here are the things she's observing regularly. Pro tip: Work hard five days a week!

If you’re married or in a long-term relationship, you should leave some things unsaid. Words are arrows; you might end up hitting the wrong target, so be extra careful at where you aim.

It will probably happen to you at least once in your life. You'll fall for somebody that your parents don't like. Sometimes, their disapproval will be valid, other times it will be irrational, but no matter what it will be hard for you to deal with.

What do you do when your parents can't stand the person you’re dating? Before taking on the role of diplomat, or even worse, the role of family agitator, there are some things that you need to examine.

It is said that age is just a number when it comes to love, and it’s more evident today that people don’t focus on age gaps in relationships as much as they used to. Even those negative stigmas associated with an older man dating a younger girl, or an older woman and a younger man, have gradually crept into our culture.

It really boils down to compatibility, lifestyle, goals, vitality, and interests.

You can settle on plenty of things in life: Where to have dinner for your mom’s birthday, for instance, or booking the less expensive, but just as nice resort for your next vacation. 

One thing you should never settle on? Your relationships. Below, marriage experts share seven qualities you should never accept in a relationship. 

‘So how does it feel being married and all?’ is the question I've been asked by almost every person I've met since I, well, got married last month. I sum it up with a quick ‘wonderful’, constantly thinking about how there's much more to it than just that.

Over time and given enough romantic disappointment, we all come up with our ways of dealing with break-ups.

Do you realise how relationship and anger now go hand in hand? It seems anger has become common and acceptable in our communities. Although it is normal and not out of the ordinary to be angry, it ceases to be normal if it becomes a routine or uncontrollable.

A relationship is a very risky business because anything can happen to any relationship. A relationship that is seen as romantic, exciting and fulfilling can turn sour and lifeless.

Edwin,Creative writer

I remember my girlfriend and I stole one of her mother’s hens to cook without her knowledge till date.

I had gone to visit my girl that day and had suggested we pound fufu, though both of us were very low on cash. We, however, managed to pull resources together for the cassava and the other ingredients, but there was no meat for the soup. 

Her mother had a hen coop full of the birds and we had to wait for her to leave the house before carrying out our ‘deed’

We quickly ‘balanced’ one of the hens for our soup and afterwards, rid ourselves of any evidence of the act by releasing the rest of the hens to go out in search for food.

 Later that night, the hens came back to roost, except the one in our soup. My girl and I volunteered as the search party to go in search of the hen, and came back to tell her mum of the missing hen after going to sit somewhere fo