Diana Gardner Robinson Ph.D. offers some reassurances and ways to plan ahead so as to not feel guilty.

Friday Video: In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

Your level of self-esteem affects how you perceive everything and perhaps especially how you perceive your partner. Your perceptions of your partner have important consequences for how fulfilling and lasting your relationship will be.

Friday Video: When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time.

You have just broken up with your boyfriend and you really miss him and want to get in contact with him. Are you wondering what he is doing or if he is missing you as well? Or perhaps you are driving yourself insane thinking he might be with someone else.

Why is it important to develop resilience? How easily can you bounce back from hardships and misfortunes in your life? Happiness is accompanied with good times.

Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes serious pain and affects the majority of Americans, both in and out of relationships. I know. I spent decades recovering. There are all types of codependents, including caretakers, addicts, pleasers, and workaholics, to name a few. They all have one thing in common: They’ve lost the connection to their core.

You wanted something, someone, or an experience to happen – and it didn’t. You got let down and you feel horrible. Here’s how to help you move past that experience and get over your disappointment quicker.

Fear has a way of injecting psychological toxins into our subconscious that acts like a handcuff, restraining our ability to achieve our goals. Although the fear may be perceived, it seems so real. This perceived fear plays games with our minds, robbing us of any rational thoughts we need to cherish in order to move ahead.

In a world of instant gratification, people jump from “stimulus” to “response” without as much as a second thought. Patience is the “pause” in between that allows us to get the result we are really looking for. Here’s how to develop more patience in you.