Relationships Archives

What Qualities Make a Good Partner?

December 3, 2025

I really wanted a good partner, but it seemed like I had been looking for love in all the wrong places. I was successful in my career, had amazing friends, but my dating life? Let's just say I sucked at it. And the hardest pill to swallow was admitting that I was the common denominator in all my failed relationships. My dating picker was broken. That is when I went on my own self-discovery journey and started to learn everything I could get my hands on about dating and relationships. When I returned to dating, I[...]

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7 Self-Sabotaging Behaviors That Ruin Relationships

November 21, 2025

As a dating coach, I've worked with countless clients who come to me frustrated, heartbroken, and confused. They're amazing people. Successful in their careers, attractive, intelligent... yet they can't seem to make a relationship last. The conversation usually starts the same way: "Amie, I don't know what's wrong with me. Every relationship ends the same way." The truth is, most relationship failures aren't about bad luck or not finding "the one." They're about patterns of self-sabotage that we repeat without eve[...]

5 Signs Someone Is Really Into You

October 21, 2025

I spent years dating people who kept me guessing. You know the type...they'd make me feel like I was on top of the world when we were together, but the moment we were apart, I felt completely non-existent. Sound familiar? Here's what I've learned through my own journey and coaching countless singles: when someone is truly into you, you shouldn't have to play detective. A healthy relationship shouldn't feel like solving a mystery. That's not conscious dating...that's just exhausting. So let's talk about the re[...]

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Dating with Social Anxiety: How to Stop Overthinking

October 3, 2025

Let me paint a picture of my old dating life before I learned how to overcome my dating anxiety. I'd either show up to a date and word-vomit my entire life story within the first twenty minutes, or I'd sit there so shy, barely able to string two sentences together. Sound familiar? The worst part? I'd go home and replay every cringeworthy moment on an endless loop. What I said, what I should have said, the awkward silences, that joke that fell flat. My anxiety wasn't just ruining my dates... it was ruining the da[...]