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I’ll be honest: Turning 21 and finding myself still single whilst watching more and more of my friends start dating was painful. In a culture that still finds it abnormal to remain single for a...
Before we got together as a couple, Cheryl and I had known each for almost a decade. In all those years as friends, we were amicable on the whole. And after a period of exclusive dating, when we got...
Two years ago, without fully knowing that I had feelings for her, my best friend of 11 years invited me to go to a Christian seminar on dating with her. I sat beside her awkwardly, waiting in tepid...
I met Cassie when we were 17, at a leadership camp in school. We were assigned to sleep in the same bunk with a couple of other girls, and it wasn’t long before I noticed that she was strangely...
“You should move in with him before there’s no way out!” My recently engaged friend shared with me that her colleagues were encouraging her to cohabitate with her boyfriend. Their...
“I’m so sorry, but I just don’t see you in that way…” The camera cuts to a wide shot of two individuals at a 45º angle, then pans between one pensive face and another (devastated) one. An...
“Hi Carmen, I was wondering if you would like to come down earlier before your consultation? Perhaps we could go for lunch?” My already furiously beating heart raced even faster and I could feel...
Last year, a colleague of mine published a controversial article titled Should couples travel together. It drew many differing opinions: Some thought that it needed to be heard, while others...
I was listening to the radio earlier today, and there was a segment in which three professional family counsellors were sharing their perspectives on what intimacy is. I was very frustrated by their...