Every person has different needs. These are needs that are about life, but also needs that are specific to relationships. For example, every person has the basic need to eat and feel safe. Some needs will be greater than others. The need to eat is vital, while the need for social contact is not. Yet…

Where you went on many dates and spent time together in the first months of your relationship, you hardly see each other anymore. Due to work and a busy social life, there is a good chance that you and your partner hardly see each other. Time can often be a sticking point in a relationship.…

Maybe you've had it before: you met a nice man and you would prefer to continue with him. It feels good when you are together and you have a good connection . At least, that's how you experience it. Ideally, the feeling would be mutual, but you notice that he's become a bit distant lately. That's why…

What is a love life without humor? Relationships would be a dull affair if there was never any laughter. That at least one of the couple has a sense of humor is therefore essential to prevent a constant funeral mood. But humor has two sides and is therefore a subjective phenomenon. What one person finds…

Many couples who decide to go to relationship therapy only do so after years of problems. Relationship therapy is therefore often seen as a last resort. In practice, it can be seen that relationship therapy can help a lot, but that it is often started too late. People often do not know exactly what relationship…

No one gets into a relationship to be the nagging partner; it just seems to happen. When you’re young, you’re used to listening to your parent nagging. But you’re not used to being the nagging one yourself when you’re in a relationship later in life. You don’t want to be the nagging one at all,…

A blind date ? Being paired up by family? Or getting to know each other through friends? It's a thing of the past. Nowadays, most people meet each other 'online'. It's by far the most popular way for new couples to meet. And because Tinder is still the number one dating app in the Netherlands, it often started with…

Of course, texting is an easy way to stay in touch with each other all day long. You don't have to call each other every time and yet you can have good conversations together . That's why it has become the most popular means of communication of the 21st century . It may be that you or the person…

While it was thought that dating apps would have to fight hard to survive the corona crisis, the opposite happened. Normal, in-person dates were postponed, but singles did not give up. On the contrary: they continued to date, more than ever. Singles were apparently reluctant to put their love lives on hold for a virus.…