Category: DATING

  • Double Take: Real Life Advice for Parents and Teens–Unrequited Love

    I think I’m falling in love with a guy who I know is not in love with me. He keeps telling me that we’re only friends. Why can’t I hear him? I keep thinking he’s going to finally see me as the perfect girl for him because I know I am. Miranda:  This letter sounds…

  • Dance! Dance! Dance!

    Spring is in the air and happy young couples everywhere succumb to the rituals of prom and ready themselves in high fashion. High school juniors and seniors across the land make restaurant reservations, order corsages and boutonnieres, get measured for tuxedos, purchase pretty dresses, receive manicures and pedicures, practice numerous hairstyles to find the perfect…

  • When Love and Pay Collide

    I heard a discussion the other day about prenuptial agreements.  It was just a little blurb I heard as I flipped past a radio station.  It was, of course, a heated discussion, which is why I changed the channel.  Earlier that same day, I read an article that made light of how children “don’t know…

  • Double Take: Sexually Explicit Sites and Teen Dating Violence?

    Dr. Wes: In July I posted an article on Facebook (www.facebook.com/FamilyPsychologicalServices) in which Keir Starmer, the top British prosecutor suggests that teenage relationships are now more violent due to the prevalence of Internet pornography. He cites research showing “that exploitation and violence in teenage relationships are more common than previously thought” and that “physical, sexual…