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The Other Half
How to Cope With Toxic Family Members
Dealing with toxic family members can be emotionally draining and challenging. Whether it's a manipulative sibling, a critical parent, or a judgmental relative, toxic family dynamics can have a significant...
Gaslighting: What It Is and How to Avoid It
Gaslighting is a pervasive and manipulative tactic employed by individuals to gain control over others by distorting their perception of reality. In this blog post, we will explore what gaslighting...
Breaking the Cycle: Why Do You Sabotage Your Relationships?
Introduction Relationships can be a source of immense joy and fulfillment in our lives. However, some individuals find themselves caught in a perplexing cycle of self-sabotage, undermining their own relationships...
Love from Afar: Dodging Scams and Nurturing Long-Distance Relationships
Can't Keep My Wallet to Myself: Spotting Scammers in Long-Distance Relationships Hey there, lovebirds! Bond Team here, and we want to chat with you about something super important: staying safe...
Broken Self-Trust takes a lifetime to restore, but I’m getting there
Trigger warnings: this piece on broken self-trust explores the personal experience of the writer. It describes a series of consequences of that lack of self-trust that include severe anxiety, depression...
Setting Boundaries Because I Love You
Making Space Brings Us Closer Together — Not Further Apart. The boundaries you set don't have to be a constraint on your relationships: they can be the force that makes...
Never Been in a Serious Relationship? Here Are 6 Tips for Your First One.
Relationship experience doesn’t correlate with someone being a great partner. Yes, that's right. And my boyfriend proved that, as the only serious relationship he had is the one him and...
Do You Struggle with Retroactive Jealousy, too? Here's How to Work Through It
Jealousy is the less-than-pretty emotion. Jealousy is the thing no one wants to talk about. In a relationship, jealousy not only feels awful, but it can make even the most...
This is what dating a narcissist is like
I sat in my car, tears streaming down my face. I’d just escaped a terrible fight. What made it worse was that it was with someone who’d treated me like...
The Freedom of a Borderless Friendship
Distance is a familiar word to me. Surprisingly, it can go together with friendship. That’s why believe in borderless friendships: I have never been afraid of kilometers separating people. And...
Ring of Fear: a coming out journey
Coming out of the closet can be difficult. Some of us even repress a lot of emotions, live a lie, or even live a double life (and I don’t mean...
Looking for Queer Joy in an Unfriendly Space
This story feels hardly unique among queer people who have had to make their way in unfriendly spaces. My college roommate and I attended a homophobic Christian institution, that would really rather us not be there.