Funniest Matrimonial Ads While online matrimonial sites are more prevalent with youngsters, Indian parents and families still prefer to choose matrimonial matches for their children and relatives through newspapers. Matrimonial ads are more popular and have a wide reach, as most people are not well conversant with the Internet and second, such ads yield better and fruitful results, as newspapers are read by people from across all social strata and therefore can reach more people....

For me, it dawned one day with a nightmare. Literally. It was about seven in the morning. I had a strange nightmare that shook me awake, all sweaty on a cold winter day. I remembered each and every bit of it vividly, and I wrote what I had just seen, as a draft on my phone, drank some water and slept again. I re-read it the evening and sensed the heaviness of it, and the profundity that it implied....

Sometimes it starts with an argument, an off-handed comment in front of a mutual friend, or maybe just forgetting to do something your partner asked of you. They’re minor slights that most couples work through by having a dialogue and understanding each other’s feelings. Narcissists have a completely different playbook though. They use the Narcissist silent treatment, sometimes with no end in sight. We typically think of narcissists as gregarious, full of themselves, and always the center of attention....

It is a rare thing in this day and age to have a long-distance affair without the convenience of video chat, or have ever met. “Hi, do we know each other?” was the first question my first ever crush, Joe asked me in November 2015. He was my first crush Though he hadn’t noticed me, I had a crush on him from the first time I saw him in church, years ago, when I was in school....

Within male friendships, opening up and confiding with each other is often a far-fetched reality. There’s a reason why the number one advice men give to their post-breakup ailing friend is usually “forget about her, let’s go get drunk.” Playful banter? Or unacceptable homophobia? Are these men fragile? Or just desensitized? With the help of Psychotherapist Dr. Aman Bhonsle (Ph.D., PGDTA), who specializes in relationship counseling and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, let’s try to find out why some men take great pride in changing a spare but are petrified of the color pink....

Sounds good fun, doesn’t it? Click here to read tips on how to spice up your sex life. For someone who has just thought about taking things up a notch, we have some good and some bad news. The bad news is it could hurt and get all messy, you could end up with your hair everywhere and sweating as if you just returned from hitting the gym Click here to see how a woman’s body changes after losing virginity....

Let’s rub it in further with this statistics! There are 277 divorces per hour, 6,646 legal splits per day, 46,523 per week and 2,419,196 divorces take place annually. Fact: It means there are nine divorces in the time a couple normally takes to recite their wedding vows (which is about two minutes). The reasons for such high rates for divorces can rooted in two words: Marital conflict. This term encompasses all the grounds why a relationship begins in church and ends in court – lack of communication, infidelity, arguments, unrealistic expectations and in some extreme forms, abuse....

Men often call women lady when they don’t know her name, but there are also several other meanings, including being polite, being impressed by you, or trying to get your attention. Therefore, it can be difficult to determine what it means when a man calls a woman a lady. However, the meaning will depend on the context and the tone in which it is said. Additionally, you’ll be surprised to know that it can also be an insult and used as a form of sarcasm to belittle a woman and make her feel small....

Everyone has a little narcissism in them, that’s healthy. Loving yourself, for most people, is responsibly taking care of yourself emotionally, mentally and physically; that is normal. Most of us know “The Golden Rule” which basically states, “Do unto others as you would have then do unto you”. If you relate that to loving, then in order to love others as ourselves, you must first love yourself. Loving yourself or “Self-love” is warm and compassionate, affirming to yourself, and helps you maintain appropriate self-esteem....

In a study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour, the researchers asked the participants questions about their infidelity with their partners; which was called extra-dyadic sexual involvement (ESI) by the researchers. And the study revealed some fascinating facts which are noteworthy- #People who cheated in their first relationship were three times as likely to cheat in their next relationship! Whoa! Once a cheater, always a cheater. #Those who knew their partners had engaged in infidelity in the previous relationships were twice as likely to report the same from their next partner....

And this issue has become so common that it’s starting to be normalized. Each day, it’s becoming harder for people to be honest and communicate why they can’t talk to their partners anymore, so their easy way out is to disappear. For some men, no matter how much they like her, it has become a habit to disappear without thinking about how it affects her. On the other hand, women are left wondering why he disappeared, what she did wrong or where the problem was....

It depends on how they want and are ready to process the breakup and deal with No Contact. Everyone deals with No Contact differently. Some take it as something quite casual and want to spend this time healing. Whereas others might get stuck in a vicious circle and can’t reflect. More specifically, they take it as a revenge plan toward them. Nevertheless, an ex blocks you during No Contact either to heal completely or to get you back....

Why do I get annoyed with my mom so easily? Some reasons include being too controlling, being a hypocrite, and being too demanding. Many children ask this question out of guilt because we live in a world where we are bombarded with messages about what life should be like. Mothers are loving, caring, and love their children unconditionally. Their children are supposed to love them with the same intensity. But unfortunately, this is not always the case; some children are raised in abusive homes or restrictive and oppressive homes, which breeds resentment....

You can miss him for various reasons, starting from post-breakup anxiety to still have feelings for him. Shortly, missing him so much is a result of the void that he leaves in your life. It can be a feeling, an event, or just a thought that will make you miss him. Hence, being unhappy or incomplete after the breakup will make you miss your ex. Is the brain that does all the tricky things or do you really miss him?...

It’s often said that all families are dysfunctional in some way. If this is true, then narcissistic families must be among the most dysfunctional families. If one or both parents in a family are narcissists, they will put their own emotional needs ahead of those of their children. This is bound to cause some tension among the other family members – and indeed, research shows that children of narcissistic parents are at greater risk of mental illnesses like depression and anxiety....

(Isn’t it annoying when the man wants to butter his fingers but stops just when you’re about to reach the top?) The best part about being a writer is that you don’t have to take the effort to log on to an XXX website or bribe a friend to load your hard disk with ‘that’ stuff. Writers can just close their eyes and dream – of men with ripped bodies, ropes and ravages and a girl with girl action, gagging and gadgets....

In a recent Ted Talks India, Javed Akhtar mentioned one of the Shayari by his father that “Har lafz ko chute huwe jo knaap na jaye/ Barbaad woh alfaz ki aukat kar jaye“. Love couplets in Hindi, English as well as other languages such as Urdu or Farsi, have been an integral part of literary evolution. In fact, most of old history or mythology is actually written in the poetry format....

Turns out, such a list might just exist after all. There are many good things to do after a breakup that can make you feel better. There is no doubt that a break-up hits you, it can feel like a debilitating punch in the gut. Once the dust settles on this pain and agony, the process of healing begins. The only trouble is that for many people the process can be long-drawn and all-consuming....

Today the number of couples opting for live-in relationships in India are increasing. What better way to know your partner before actually marrying them than to live with them under the same roof for some time. It’s like the “Level Up” in a video game. One may realise that two people are strikingly different to what we thought they were once you start living in. They might then decide that a lifetime agreement won’t work out hence saving themselves a lot of mental agony and legal hassles that come with a divorce....

More often than not, we are so swept up in the glee and excitement of a new relationship that we overlook the core qualities of a person that make them desirable to us. You’re so busy laughing and wiping the ice cream off his face, that you perhaps realize only much later that you may not know him all that well as a person. You know his favorite ice cream flavor and that he’s a clumsy mess but you do not know anything about his past heartbreaks and how they changed him....