The Future's So Bright

Allow yourself some excitement in finding romance! This is the beginning of a brand-new chapter in your life, and what a brave and hopeful one it is. If you’ve been in a “dry spell” for a while, look forward to some much-needed rain in the form of new romance!

“When I was getting divorced, I was going through a really lousy time of it, and I felt like happiness had passed me by,” says Neil Rosenthal, a licensed marriage and family therapist and author of the syndicated newspaper column, “Relationships.” “But then I read something that said, ‘There will be more orgasms.’ It sounds strange, but it was exceptionally helpful to me. It’s not over; you haven’t died yet. There will be more. It’s become a mantra for me. You will have more opportunities for happiness, no matter how lousy you’re feeling at the moment. Life gives us more opportunities to drink out of the golden chalice.”

No matter how difficult you may find this process, know that you will find a new relationship as long as you keep looking. Both heartache and happiness are part of life, but now is the time to embrace the latter of the two. Full-steam ahead!