If you knew better you'd do better, and if you felt better you'd date better.  We date at the level of our self-esteem. Your relationship is a direct reflection of your own self-love and self-worth.

A lot of TDL Seekers have written in saying that they are in a relationship (dating, marriage, etc.) with someone who they really are into, but they are not getting their needs met. They keep asking me how they have to change to keep the relationship going.

Pause.

Everything feels a lot harder when you’re dealing with high-functioning depression ― including relationships.

Experts say the condition often isn’t noticeable to most people, because those who experience it tend to mask it well. This arguably makes the disorder difficult for partners to detect and the people who deal with it hesitant to speak up in the first place.

The symptoms are aligned with those of depression, including irritability and extreme sadness. But the average observer wouldn’t necessarily know it based on how the sufferer is acting.

Sharing some good vibes this morning!!!
Love who you want to love, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. :)
Congrats Sydrick Castle Arizala and Kiervin Aves Tungpalan!
#LoveWins #Proposal #MayForever

Adrian Homer, 31, and Harrison Guy, 40, first became acquainted as Homer sought membership with the fraternity, Delta Phi Upsilon. Initially, Guy was just Homer’s big brother but he eventually became his husband. 

The Beginning: Adrian Homer, 31, and Harrison Guy, 40, both belong to the fraternity, Delta Phi Upsilon. 

The first black man I loved wasn’t an accumulation of white America’s long-held fears. No black man could ever live up to that. He was a body, a human. He was not America’s fabled monstrous buck nor was he an icon of meritocracy.

He was my father. I was his son.

Recently featured on Muna Lunchi Bride, Daquan and Jamar's wedding is by far one of the most stylish we've seen.  The couple was married last year on November 6, in Philly's Art's Ballroom.  Dequan is a dancer, choereographer and a gym owner and Jamar is the Manager of HR Quality Systems and Technology at Comcast.

On how they met: 

I don’t know how to be in a relationship. I know how to be a friend, but I don’t know how to have a partner — someone who is included in my day-to-day life, someone I go on vacations with and for whom I’m willing to travel to some horrible town to meet their parents. I’ve dated people before but it never turned into anything substantial. I pushed my lovers away until they had no choice but to end it themselves. I was petrified every step of the way. Of what, I’m not sure, but every time I started settling in to some routine, I’d retreat. 

In a video chat on Facebook live socialite Prince Roman revealed he was been undetectable for years his partner Loko Mizrahi is negative.  In the video they talk about love, sex, staying healthy and making a relationship work in general.  If you've got the time its a real eye opening conversation and one that isn't told enough.

Check out the video below.

I know what you’re thinking. Did I do something wrong? Did I say something too intense, too deep? Was I too clingy? What did I do that made them stop talking to me out of the blue?

Listen up. You did NOTHING WRONG. This is not about you. This has absolutely nothing to do with what you said or didn’t do. This has everything to do with your ex. They're just an asshole.

You didn’t say anything to make them stop liking you. You didn’t do anything to make them all of a sudden start ghosting you. You weren’t too much. You weren’t too sensitive or too caring.

The feeling of falling and being in love is one of the greatest feelings one could ever feel and experience. You feel motivated, driven, and secure having someone in your corner to support and comfort you.

However, some of us may become confused when trying to figure out what it is that we are feeling exactly–Do I just like them a lot, or is this love?

According to science, your brain will be able to figure it out before you’re able to realize it.