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How Do You Know If You Should Keep Working At A Struggling Or Even Flatlining Relationship?

How Do You Know If You Should Keep Working At A Struggling Or Even Flatlining Relationship?

by NATALIE | Relationships

Knowing when to work at a relationship is a bit of minefield. Should you stay? Should you go? If you stay, should you just wait to see if things get better in time? Should you try to get your partner to change? Should you keep talking about the issues in the hope that...

When They Come Back Claiming That They’ve Changed…But Have They?

by NATALIE | Breakups

Picture this (adopts Sophia from Golden Girls voice), Dublin, 2000. It’s a few days before Christmas and I’m making my way to the arrivals hall with all of my baggage (literally and figuratively…) after getting off a flight from Miami. My parents...

Don’t Let Excuses Keep You in an Unavailable or Shady Relationship

by NATALIE | Boundaries

Something that differentiates between healthy and unhealthy relationships is the presence of excuses, whether it’s yours and/or theirs. In the worst of situations, where you may be denying, rationalising, and minimising, you might even be making excuses for...
Stripping the Excuse Out of the Excuses in Dating & Relationships

Stripping the Excuse Out of the Excuses in Dating & Relationships

by NATALIE | Boundaries

Each day on the Baggage Reclaim Facebook Page, I share little snippets of my insights about relationships. After @AngieMaggieB tweeted me saying, “I may have heard every excuse in the book this week… and then made every excuse for all those excuses,”...
Recognising That Being Intelligent Is Not the Same As Being Relationship Smart

Recognising That Being Intelligent Is Not the Same As Being Relationship Smart

by NATALIE | Self

One of the most infuriating things about realising that you have been involved with someone where the signs were there that there were issues, red flags, or that the relationship couldn’t work is feeling like you dropped the ball. You wonder how a woman who...
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