That is why control of finances and money is a big area of conflict in family relationships and marriage. But this also means that there’s a ripe ground for financial abuse[1] (also referred to as ’economic abuse’), which you may not even realize is happening. You will never agree on everything in deciding what to spend money on and when to save. However, disagreeing is very different from someone holding all the financial power in a relationship....

After evacuating Ukraine, Shashenok has spent a lot of time traveling and living in different countries across Europe and has decided to post videos of her journey. Valeria Shashenok posts TikToks regularly to describe her life as a Ukrainian refugee. With over 1.3 million followers on TikTok and many, frequently viral videos, Shashenok uses her account on the platform as a sort of video journal to allow others on her journey as a Ukrainian refugee....

The child’s mother, Kelsey Smith discovered the woman in her son’s bed after her dogs alerted and led her from the back porch to the bedroom. Smith, a resident of northeast Portland, is demanding measures be taken to deal with the region’s homeless population. The security camera video showed the homeless woman asleep in her child’s bed. Smith said that she was on her back deck speaking to a friend when her dogs started to bark incessantly....

The (supposedly) drunk guest attempted to execute a popular prank that consisted of getting cake on the face of whoever’s being celebrated but got a reaction he wasn’t expecting. When the wedding guest destroyed the cake, the groom punched him in the face. In a now-deleted TikTok that was posted by @petrovichpetrovich, you can see the bride and groom working on cutting the cake and handing it out to people....

While many of us have been counting down to Venus turning direct on January 29th, there is still a week left to help us move through what this time period was supposed to teach us. Venus in Capricorn isn’t overly romantic and really is more concerned about the pragmatic aspects of love. Think of acts of service over gifts or quality time. For many the past month or so lacked a lot of the principles that we normally associate with being in a relationship, from dates to sweet little gifts and even sex could have all been reduced during this time period....

In short, a humblebrag is a statement that is meant to draw attention to something that someone is proud of under the veil of self-deprecation or a complaint. For example, if you’re a person of ordinary means and I told you “man, I hate my 2 million dollar sports car because I always get pulled over since the police think that I’m speeding,” …that would be a humblebrag. Most everyone has someone in their life that loves to humblebrag and those who don’t might just be guilty of it themselves....

What is a grand trine in astrology? Grand trines bring the focus to three signs in the same element 120 degrees apart in the natal chart. When each sign in the same element has at least one personal planet and makes a trine aspect to the other planets in the same element, a grand trine is formed. RELATED: The 10 Most Challenging Zodiac Placements In Astrology There are four possible grand trines: grand air trine, grand water trine, grand earth trine, and grand fire trine....

Aside from being beautiful and nice to look at, the mandala holds historical meaning and incredibly spiritual symbolism. What is a mandala? A mandala is much more than just a page in a coloring book; mandalas are geometric symbols with a great deal of meaning and symbolism. The word mandala comes from a Sanskrit word that loosely translates to “circle.” Though mandalas are generally thought to be strategic designs with repeating shapes and patterns, they can also be more free-flowing and asymmetrical, drawn in both circles and squares....

What is embodiment? The word embodiment means to express a thing, feeling, quality, experience, or idea in a tangible or visible form. It also refers to the process through which something becomes part of a living body through incorporation and incarnation. Note, both “corp” and “carnate” refer to the body. RELATED: A Lifetime Journey: 5 Steps For Greater Development Of Self-Awareness What is our embodied mind? Human brains are highly oriented to sensory (our senses) and movement-based learning....

In the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, NASA will demonstrate the kinetic impactor — in layman’s terms, “hit it really hard” technique. The mission will measure the change caused by the spacecraft’s impact into a moonlet at 6.6 km/s on the motion of a moonlet. Now, if the word “moonlet” didn’t tip you off, this space rock is enormous compared to any spacecraft humanity has ever launched at 160 meters and solid rock....

On Instagram and Twitter, shadow banning tends to be a kind of taboo subject. Users often don’t even know they’re shadow banned, and if they suspect it, they probably won’t be that vocal about it. On TikTok, however, criticizing the shadow ban feature is open season. Straight TikTok, alt TikTok, WitchTok, prison TikTok — every subculture has fallen victim to shadow banning at one point or another. Except for cottagecore TikTok; they might be immune....

When a cashier at Walmart who noticed Fortner in the store often complimented her on her kids’ consistently cute outfits and good behavior and commented that she “seems to have it all together,” Fortner thanked her and giggled. RELATED: Antidepressants Make Me A Better Mom What she wishes she said, though, she decided to write in a brutally honest post to Facebook. “I want her to know I battle a personality disorder every day with anxiety and depression mixed, and I’m a two-time suicide survivor,” she wrote, beginning a list of things she really wanted the cashier to know about her....

With the internet being so central to life, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time it simply… didn’t exist. But as wild as it may sound to many younger people these days, if you’re of a certain age, you remember those pre-internet days all too well–and probably quite fondly. RELATED: Internet Brain Is A Real Thing Reddit users are looking back on life as a teenager before the internet....

Mathematically, however, we know that can’t be true, because while every baby is precious, every single baby can’t be perfect — for now, at least. However, that may change in the future, as the concept of genetically altered babies is becoming more realistic. In fact, in 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced that he had created the world’s first genetically modified babies from embryos altered to make them resistant to HIV....

And to that end, how we smell down there can either egg him on or make the fun halt pretty darn quick. Basically, guys want girls to be ready for them in the same way we’d want them to be ready for us. And a part of that is to be clean and fresh before they get there. Because if they get down there and it’s smelly, that just may be a dealbreaker....

Even as a full grown adult, it sometimes seems like understanding what men want in a relationship is a puzzle you’ll never be able to solve. When you’re young and going through high school or college, it can feels as though guys are never being genuine about their feelings. At least, I know it felt that way to me at times. It just seems like men and women often have wildly different expectations when it comes to dating, especially when you’re young — but do they really want such different things in the long run?...

With the honeymoon in the rearview, your job taking its daily quota of energy, and the kids a handful, how soon before your conversations are limited to checking schedules, paying bills, and meal prepping? And when did you start doomscrolling for fun? You know, all the things that roommates do. RELATED: 3 Steps To Reviving Your Sexless Relationship (Yes, It’s Possible!) The ‘roommate" phase of marriage The “roommate” experience in marriage can be very different from one home to another....

You know those situations where you tell yourself that things are going well when they really aren’t? Yeah. Well, that’s kind of how it is when you’re dating somebody who once cared a lot about you but something changed along the way. The most tempting thing to do when you realize that your relationship is failing because of your partner’s lack of effort is to deny it. Hard. Which is what I did....

While saying, “I’m sorry for your loss,” is perhaps the most common way people offer condolences, the person grieving may not feel comforted by these words alone. When my husband passed away, it really bothered me to hear this. I felt like I was being told I’d lost track of him somehow. In those first few months, I felt like his soul was quite close to me, so while I missed his physical presence, I didn’t feel as though he was “lost....

But there’s another number that gives you an idea of the vibe you give off when you meet people. And it’s an important aspect of any social interaction. What is an Attitude Number? Your Attitude Number, also known as your Sun Number or Achievement Number, is all about the first impressions you make on other people. It may not even be in alignment with your true self, but is how you are perceived....