The first key to a successful long distance relationship: set a date in the reasonably near future by which you and your partner will live in the same city.
The neurologist and author Oliver Sacks tells the story of a patient who is haunted by a nightmare. This patient is afraid to go to sleep because, every time that she does, a monster chases her.
What would happen if your fiancé were to give you a ring?
If the three of us — you, your fiancé, and I — were sitting in my office, that’s the question with which I would begin our conversation.
Early in 2013, there was a buzz around the blogosphere regarding the Christian Purity Culture or Abstinence Movement. The authors of these blogs, mostly women in their mid-20s to mid-30s, are seeing in hindsight that the purity pledges they took as teens had far greater consequences that just retaining their virginity.