We’ve all heard some crazy ideas about how to best live our lives, so here are a few common-sense rules about love and agency relationships that we often forget or convince ourselves do not apply to us. If you don’t tell your partner when their actions hurt you, they will not change. If you are in an abusive relationship you need to end it. Being afraid that you will not find another partner is not a reason to stay with them. Too many times I have seen charities too afraid to

Just as it is now, Christmas was approaching fast. The year was 1991 and the shops of Portsmouth had hung their decorations, put up their trees and were blaring jingles that played in the background of everyone’s minds for the rest of the season. A helpful 10-year-old decided to give his parents a helping hand this year by circling the Lego set he wanted in the catalogue, ensuring a very merry Christmas for him and a guaranteed win for his folks. This Lego set was awesome. He