How Divorcées can Survive Valentine’s Day
This is a special guest post from Maggie Currie. Going through divorce often leaves you feeling that you have nobody to rely on, other than yourself. So take advantage of you and really look after yourself on this day. Turn the focus of your attention to you. Buy yourself something special, something you will really…
Read MoreWe’re looking for a volunteer blog editor
Our current volunteer blog editor Nicola is leaving us to concentrate on her new future as a counsellor, we’d like to wish her the very best. As Nicola is leaving, someone has the amazing opportunity to take over and shape the Relationships Scotland blog. We have a wide range of people blogging for us, from…
Read MoreTell us your favourite Christmas song – win a £25 Amazon voucher! #TopTenXmas
‘Christmas Wrapping’ by The Waitresses (video below) is the best Christmas song of all time. If you beg to differ then do let us know… You can tell us your favourite on Twitter using the #TopTenXmas hashtag. Alternatively you can tell us your favourite Christmas record on our Facebook page. Each time you tweet/post you’ll be entered in…
Read MoreTell us the worst Christmas present you’ve ever received – win a £25 Amazon voucher!
Whether it’s the reindeer jumper your aunt Mabel knitted you in 1987 or the David Hasselhoff aftershave your dad bought you in 1991 we want to hear about the worst Christmas present you’ve ever received. We realise it’s the thought that counts but some presents are so bad they’re funny. You can tell us on…
Read MoreChristmas dinners
It starts in our house with me asking hubby to go up the loft for the tree and decorations, usually about September to give him plenty of time to say he’ll do it at the weekend and then never do it. Then, the night of the tree going up, in my haphazard and non-creative fashion,…
Read MoreHow to avoid a Christmas crime scene
The idea of an extended family get-together can be absolutely the best thing about Christmas for many people, but for some, we have to acknowledge, it can be the most stressful. Even in intact families problems can arise if in-laws don’t get along: I’m lucky with my own in-laws so I asked a counsellor colleague,…
Read MoreA new kind of Christmas
And so Christmas approaches again and it’s almost a year since my dad died. It will be a strange time, with a mixture of sadness, being without my dad, and happiness at potentially having more freedom to be with Sara, as I’m now a former carer. Anyway, this can be a very interesting time when…
Read MoreA cup o’ kindness
So here we are on the third day of December and already the Christmas hysteria has begun. Please do not think me a “Bah humbug!” curmudgeon: it’s good that we have something to look forward to celebrating in the dark winter months, but I do feel that expectations are so high that the reality can…
Read More10 Christmas survival tips for couples
Gill O’Connell of Relationship Counselling Highland offers some sound advice on getting through the festive season. The story goes: Christmas is about joy, harmony and love. The reality is, though, that it is hard for even the most relaxed people to get through to Boxing Day without some crisis in their family or relationship. When there…
Read MoreTell us your favourite Christmas movie – win a £25 Amazon voucher!
Whether it’s the feel good classic ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ or something a little more leftfield like Die Hard, everyone has a favourite Christmas film. We’d love to hear from you what Xmas films make you cry or laugh out loud time and time again. You can tell us on Twitter using the aptly titled #TopTenXmas hahstag. Alternatively you…
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