Dating

Don’t let the circuit breaker break your relationship: 3 things to consider while you’re apart

Since Singapore’s circuit breaker measures kicked in about a week ago, it also meant that all social activities had to be put on hold. No extended family gatherings, no going over to a...

Friendship

5 tips to rekindle friendships

As we go through different stages of life — entering college, changing jobs, or just growing busy from changing responsibilities — we sometimes lose touch with old friends. Though it is normal...

Friendship

Do you have a friend who loves you through your darkest times?

Growing up, I met these two friends in Sunday school. We were just “hi bye friends” in church and were not close. But at a church retreat in 2015, the three of us reconnected as...

Family

Not allowed to meet your church friends? Youth pastors share handles on sticky family conversations

As all worship services in churches will be suspended from today until April 30, small groups have become the main source of fellowship for many. However, some of you might have parents who...

Church Life

When community becomes a distant concept

Not too long ago, we wouldn’t think twice as we walked into our church service hall, conveniently plonking ourselves down in the seat adjacent to a friend, acquaintance or newcomer. There was...

Real Life, Real People

When COVID-19 crashes your wedding

What were some of the challenges you faced?  Linus: Vivien and I are both frontline healthcare staff. So in the weeks leading up to our wedding in February, there was a real danger that we would get...

Friendship

I wanted to be popular, so I signed up for 10 CCAs

Growing up, I bought the idea that one had to be loud and extroverted to command the attention of others. To me, it seemed that these traits boosted one’s popularity. And going into university,...

Dating

I told my girlfriend on Valentine’s Day: “You’re not as pretty as you used to be”

Before I married my wife last year, we had been friends for 12 years during which we dated for about three. So Cheryl and I had already been going out for a fair amount of time when Valentine’s Day...

Relationships

I just wanted somebody to love me

At the age of 13, I got into my first unofficial “relationship” with a guy from church. My family and church leaders advised me against it, saying that I was too young and needed more...