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6 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Relationships

6 Ways COVID-19 is Affecting Relationships

If you’re living mostly in isolation with your partner due to Covid-19 at least one of the following is likely to apply to you.

Is Valentine’s Day good or bad for your relationship?

Is Valentine’s Day good or bad for your relationship?

Valentine’s Day is supposed to be the romantic day of the year, or so we’re led to believe by card manufacturers, chocolatiers, jewellery shops, florists, restaurants and travel brokers! But why is it, and what does it actually mean to you, your partner and for your relationship? We look at the good and bad in our latest blog!

Three words you won’t want to hear these holidays if you’re trying to conceive

Three words you won’t want to hear these holidays if you’re trying to conceive

As others talk and reminisce about the year that’s passed and their hopes for the coming twelve months, this can be an incredibly emotional time for you and your partner. Add into the mix that the whole festive period is centred around one of the most religious and well- known pregnancies and birth in the world, you may feel that ache even more intensely particularly if you are asked ‘any news yet?’

Five Relationship Gifts to Give Your Partner This Christmas

Five Relationship Gifts to Give Your Partner This Christmas

Christmas is a time for giving, but no-one ever said it had to cost a fortune! So, this year, why not give your loved ones these five relationship gifts. These gifts don’t break, in fact they can last a lifetime - and your partner will likely love you even more because of them!

Couples at Christmas: Long distance relationships

Couples at Christmas: Long distance relationships

Relationships come in all different shapes and sizes – and sizes, for some couples, includes the travelling distance between them!

Though some couples (even with families) manage to have happy, fulfilling permanent long-distance relationships, on the whole, long distance circumstances when you’re planning a family or have young children are due to commitments one or other of you have elsewhere. This could be due to shift work, work in remote locations, study, deployment, caring for elderly or ill parents or any other of the myriad of factors families live with.

So, how can you make long distance work as a couple and as a family at any time, not just during the holidays?

More Fights After Baby? Join the Club!

More Fights After Baby? Join the Club!

Arguing more with a partner can be distressing, especially if you thought having a baby would bring you closer to your partner than before. The truth is parenthood brings couples closer in some ways but pushes them apart in others. The trick is to know how to find your way back to each other.