“Signs of a Dead-end Relationship” interview (Mumbai Mirror)
Interview with journalist Aruna Rathod Not everyone wants their relationship to end in marriage, but if you feel you are in love limbo, read the signs. In January this year, 27-year-old American champion swimmer and Olympian Michael Phelps ended his one-year-long affair with aspiring model and girlfriend Megan Rossee because he reportedly felt the relationship wasnt going anywhere and split to pursue other options. Ending a dead-end relationship is smart move, couple counsellors will tell you, except, not everyone is as prudent or brave (or lucky) as Phelps. It's not [...]
Modern Dating: “Enter the Spare” interview with Mumbai Mirror
By Teja Lele Desai, Mumbai Mirror with Susan Winter | Sep 17, 2013, 08.12 AM IST In a bid to minimise unwanted heartache, young people in relationships are opting for standby lovers. Plan A didn't work out? There's always Plan B. These days, it's not workplaces that encourage a backup plan. Modern relationships do, too. Is it the inability to be decisive or the fear of not knowing how a relationship will pan out, that is behind standby relationships? Consulting psychotherapist and counsellor Dr Minnu R Bhonsle [...]
How To Get Back With Your Ex
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post You want to reconnect NOW. You fear if too much time lapses your ex will move on to someone new. Like a lost child you wait in place... hoping they’ll return. The automatic response to an unwanted breakup is to stay frozen. We fear any forward movement will break the ties that bound us to our mate. If we just stay in place they’ll know where to find us. So we wait. And wait. The action we need [...]
Dating in the Time of Bad Advice
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Dating can feel like running a marathon in high-heels and push-up bra... with a bad hangover. The “no rules” free-for-all system we have today puts men in a vaulted seat of primacy. Men have become the treasured goal. Or so a woman is led to believe. The magazines that serve as your coaches are failing you, ladies. While you’re flipping through articles on the latest trick to pleasing a man for the night, you’re not gaining any real [...]