It feels so good to soothe and be soothed. I describe this to my children as two individuals with holes in their hearts who push their hearts together to stop the bleeding rather than fixing the two holes. And what happens when the soothing one wounded heart provides is distracted by another issue in life? The heart they've been soothing feels abandoned. 

I see these memes a lot, poetic...

Being single or partnered make little difference on Valentine's Day. Ok, that's not entirely true, because more breakups occur Valentine's Day than any other due to all of the expectations we have loaded on this arbitrary celebration. If being single today has you down, I'd like to share how being alone taught me what love really is. 

As a man, I'm likely not as affected by how I feel about...