Radical honesty ain’t for everybody or every relationship; even though it should be.

Yes—when you are vulnerable, you can get hurt worse than when you were guarded. But you’ll be hurt far less frequently. Since you’re so open about what you need, you avoid unsatisfactory situations that you used to get dragged into.

When you want to give people the benefit of the doubt, it’s hard to know how strict or lax to be, especially when it comes to dating somebody new. You try to remind yourself that you don’t know their entire back story, that it’s easy to take things out of context and that it takes […]

Even telling a small lie in a relationship can eliminate any amount of trust you’ve built up over the years, and for good reason. There is a line, let’s call it the honest line, that some people are willing to cross and some are not. You may feel like you only went over it by […]

The following things are not common in healthy relationships--be sure not to tolerate them.