Well, we’ve got you covered. With insights from counseling psychologist and certified life-skills trainer Deepak Kashyap (Masters in Psychology of Education), who specializes in a range of mental health issues, including LGBTQ and closeted counseling, we decode the difference between being in love and loving someone. What Is Love? The Psychology Behind It Ask a poet and they would write you a poem about the meaning of love. Ask a mathematician and they will probably come up with an equation to explain the feeling....

Liking someone means you enjoy their company. If we go by love vs like psychology, liking is almost a stepping stone to the process of loving someone though it is not mandatory to reach that stage with everyone you like. For instance, Tia, a landscape architect, shares, “I had started to like a guy from work and then eventually developed similar feelings toward my roommate, Alice, but I was confused....

He has schizophrenia and has no sense of privacy… We happened to see a psychologist after one year of my marriage. That doctor confirmed that he is a schizophrenic. His mother who heard this news from the doctor returned home and created a big fight between me and my husband. Living with someone with schizophrenia is not easy. Due to this nature, he will listen to every rubbish his parents and brother tell him....

Oedipus is distraught with this revelation and pieces together his side of the story. Oedipus had escaped from his home after listening to a similar prophecy, killed a man with whom he entered into an argument (his father, Laius), landed in Thebes where he solved a riddle by the Sphinx and became the king. As was the custom, he wed queen Jocasta and begot children with her. Unwittingly, Oedipus killed his father, married his mother and had children with her, thereby fulfilling the prophecy....

Sujoy, you certainly wear many hats as an interdisciplinary artist… You are an ideator, conceiving and presenting different cultural programmes; an elocutionist; an actor, showcasing your talent on stage and in films like the highly acclaimed Bengali film Belaseshe. You are also credited to be the first male to read the Vagina Monologues… I am a playwright. I wrote the semi-autobiographical one-act play Happy Birthday and essayed the role of Rony Das, the protagonist....

It is also pivotal for fine-tuning you and your partner to each other’s weaknesses that may pose a threat to the success of the marriage. Believe Gillian Flynn when she wrote, “Marriage is compromise and hard work, and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.” If you’re on the threshold of starting your marital journey, it pays to understand what is premarital counselling and its benefits to gain perspective about how your relationship can benefit from it....

You’re now faced with a tempting, challenging, and tricky situation. It’s something a lot of us have been through. Some reply without thinking, some choose to ignore the situation altogether, while some others get stuck in the loop of overthinking. It’s that buzzing question that makes sleep difficult: “Should I reply to my ex or not?” A comfortable night with a fulfilling sleep just turned into a sleepless one. It’s not pathetic, it’s normal, and it’s common....

Jealousy is a mental uneasiness which seeds from the fear of unfaithfulness. It is a quite normal and common ingredient of marriages. If doses are manageable and mild, it can be a positive force in a relationship by reminding a couple not to take each other for granted. However, it can be toxic when it turns into obsession. It can only be healthy when expressed honestly without jumping to an irrational conclusion or accusing a partner without any concrete background....

Can you survive an affair? Yes you can but rebuilding trust is a tough job. You not only need to help your spouse to heal from your betrayal, you need to do a lot of soul searching after infidelity. There are stages of coping with infidelity and going through those stages can prove to be painful. When you see the distrust in your partner’s eyes after every call you get, every text you smile at or you are late in getting home for 20 minutes, it could make you feel awful....

For those of you who are catching up with this series here, I suggest reading the previous parts before you read this. My wife Shweta and I are a working couple. We embarked on a new adventure with a close couple friend, Sharad and his wife Swati, with whom we used to share terrific chemistry. We went on a weekend vacation to Ooty with them where we swapped partners for the night....

“Would You Rather” is one of the most enjoyable party games. It’s even more fun when all the players are adults, so the questions can be truly no-holds-barred. And this article lists, in my humble opinion, the best dirty Would You Rather questions for adults. As fun as Would You Rather can be, it can get tricky to play. It’s hard to think of original questions every single turn, and at parties, it’s easy to get too drunk to think straight....

This is affecting relationships and mental wellbeing not only of the woman but also her family. A recent article indicated that there is an increase in divorce petitions being filed in the Family Court and averages 22 petitions daily. Another article quoted Lawrato receiving 60% of all daily calls related to divorce matters and Lawyered receiving a 20% spike in divorce cases since the lockdown. Some of the reasons quoted by experts for the divorce petitions are the rising standards of expectations from each other, lack of time for the partner and lack of communication between the couple....

Some love and aren’t loved back. Some lose love. Some give up on love and settle for lust — swiping right on everything that moves on their screen so at least they don’t have to return to an empty home at night. But, again, this access to a pool of prospects — be it IRL or online — hasn’t always existed for everyone. Take the LGBTQIA+ community for example. For years, we frequented gay bars and met up with friends of friends of friends — our access severely limited not just by the fear of discrimination but also by physical distance and lack of ways to bridge that....

Often misinterpreted and multi-layered with meaning, this system of communication with emojis has helped introverts smoothly avoid conversation and extroverts illustrate their already overflowing rush of words. These could be the kissing emoji, the heart emoji, or the blowing kiss emoji. The options are endless. Emojis have made life colorful and painful at the same time, as your upended smiley might be construed as torture by hanging upside down instead of abstract expression of cuteness....

Dress shopping, finalizing the venue for your wedding and selecting the perfect cake topper are all exciting errands to run with your significant other. But looking for things to put on wedding registry might be a little difficult. There are many items that could be wedding registry must haves which will help you in building a beautiful home along with your partner. What Is A Wedding Registry? Once you fight the pre-wedding blues, it’s time to get some work done....

Engaged to be married, I caught my fiancée cheating and decided to call the wedding off. I was left devastated and never imagined a thing like this is possible. The way I came to know that she was with another man was also the most horrible experience. I was supposed to be at a conference, which was out of town, but I came back a day earlier to give her a surprise and landed up at her apartment....

How Soon Is Too Soon To Marry Someone? I was in a two-month-long relationship with a girl before committing to this arranged marriage. I ditched her because she was too modern and I couldn’t accept the way she used to dress up. I am from a village background and brought up in the traditional and orthodox Brahmin community. It’s a long story and a big list of issues that finally made me decide I should move on....

This happens, sadly, even in personal relationships. Perfectly smart folks get fooled into thinking they are someone’s Plan A when in fact they’re just a backup if things don’t work out. Question is, are you being fooled too? Well, here’s that 6-point checklist for you right now so you can find out whether you’re truly someone’s first choice or just their sloppy seconds: 1. All take and no give You may be blind in love, but keep your eyes peeled for signs that the object of your affection is constantly making demands but offering precious little in return....

Falling in love is one of the most amazing experiences. It triggers all kinds of happy hormones in our bodies, making us feel like we could conquer the world. When that love is suddenly withdrawn, it’s devastating, which is why it’s so hard to hear her say she doesn’t love you anymore. Not only is your love for her still as strong as ever, but you start to doubt the relationship you invested so much into....

It is not easy to call it quits on someone who means the world to you. Falling in love can make you blind to the red flags and you may be in denial about how your relationship is doing you more harm than good. This is why walking away from someone you love becomes an act that you may not necessarily want but something that you definitely need. Since the toxicity in your relationship eventually becomes the “normal” that you get used to, since there’s no real rulebook that signifies what makes a relationship healthy and what doesn’t, it gets difficult to ascertain when to walk away from a relationship....