An answer to an email question about reconnecting after a painful breakup. -MR

Hi Margaret Ruth

Old Heartbreaks, Old Arguments, Old Relationship Hurts

For some people, these can fuel an endless loop of painful replay that crowds out new ideas, new feelings and even new relationships. We know that on one level that the healthiest thing we can do is to disconnect from the old stories...

Have you been feeling on the verge of a breakthrough? This could be the year to do that. We've all heard think outside the box. This year, resolve to be outside the box.

In our culture, the typical gifting period of the year shifts rapidly to this moment of...

One component of having authentic, satisfying connections with others is the willingness to express yourself authentically.

Many of us have a bad habit of answering any question that gets posed to us, and then when we don't want to answer truthfully, we have a white lie handy. White lies theoretically...

Hi Margaret Ruth, I just wanted to let you know that I really respect you and your work. Do you have anything on dealing with heartbreak when a relationship with mutual love breaks up for other reasons? I'm really in a low spot right now and any words would be...

"I don't know what being empathic exactly means, but I wonder if I am," Indie asked the other day. "I've been having shoulder problems that don't make sense and my mother is currently struggling with severe shoulder pain. My memory has been very bad lately and my father is losing...

We might all be aware -- thanks to the plethora of relationship advice available in our culture -- of the multitudinous ways we can mentally, physically and psychologically mess up our most important relationships though our words and actions. For instance, I was intrigued by a recent Cosmopolitan...

What next? Where do I go from here? What should I do now? The theme of 2010 is "Doors," I think.

After enduring the career and relationship anxiety generated by last year's economic problems, many of my clients and friends are asking about what opportunities and new ideas are good...

I have been getting a fair amount of questions lately that concern the issue of self-worth. Actually, the main questions I've been getting are such things as: Why can't I get what I want? Why do I only get parts of what I want? For many, the source issue...

Our beliefs about romances, even when spawned from untrue but often repeated relationship ideas and assumptions from outside of us, can feel true. Start de-cluttering by dissecting these to identify stuff that is true as well as stuff that isn't. One effective sorting tool I like to use as a...

Recently, I commented on Facebook that my Kleenex box announces that it is "Now Softer and Stronger!" which sounds pretty enlightened to me. My friend Traci responded that it was too bad that people didn't come with obvious announcements like that. In this area I have a small (almost unnoticeable,...

Did you know that there is a marking on the palm's Heart Line that some palmists call the kinky kick? When found in a hand, it is said to indicate someone who enjoys perhaps the most adventurous side of love, I guess we could say.

Did you almost look at...

The newest ASTROgirl! magazine is on the stands and the colorful cover touts "Juicy Celeb Psychic Predictions!". And the person making those juicy psychic predictions? That would be none other than me.

I need to say first that I still get a hit from seeing myself in a national...

Looking for Joy in All the Right Places seems like a good personal theme song for each of us, and in December we just might find it in the dark. In the Northern Hemisphere, December's shorter days of course mean much less daylight, so many people find themselves wishing this...

Sitting down to turkey, dressing and gravy earlier in October, I attended a thanks-giving dinner marking the final in-person gathering for an Internet group of Seth readers, with whom I have interacted for nearly a decade. This group of highly developed intuitives and psychics from around the country knew that...

Author and Popular Psychic Margaret Ruth answered a reader's question about how to finally experience really great, long lasting relationships.

Margaret,

My boyfriend and I broke up about 2 months ago because he is moving back to his country, Argentina. I feel that I love him and therefore I need to let him go do what he needs to do in his life.

Have you noticed that trying to have a ongoing close relationship with someone who is more insecure or troubled than you are can be difficult, tiring and too much "work" (work meaning toil and strain)? Have you ever witnessed a close relationship where one person was giving more than the...

Question for you, Margaret Ruth:

You usually answer relationship and dating questions without breaking down specific recommendations for male/male, female/female or female/male combinations. I think it would be interesting to see how advice might be different for these. What do you think about doing that sometimes? - C

I think...

How do you know when you have outgrown a friendship? I have a friendship that is really hurting me. - K

Oddly enough, you have answered your own question.

The quick answer is that you and I will want to keep a relationship as long as the benefits outweigh the...