On WittedRoots.com, the Relationships sub-category will highlight informed articles that explore the various kinds of relationships we are a member of, and how we navigate our emotional wellness within them, especially as it relates to millennial women of color.
Friendship Breakup: Using Discernment With Friends
No one prepared me for the deep, horrifying pain of breaking up with my best friend. While growing up, I remember hearing adages like, “enjoy it while it lasts”, “you’ll figure out who’s really down for you”, “life-long friendship is…
Friends Support Friends: Benefits Of Supportive Friendship
Mental illness can make a person feel isolated and alone. It leaves you vulnerable and incapable of expressing your feelings adequately to others around you. At least it makes you feel that way. Most times, a situation arises where you…
How To Leave An Emotionally Abusive Relationship?
The Invisible Wound: Don’t you just love when your partner makes you feel less than who you are and what you deserve? I remember working at a hotel during one summer and I got the shock of my life when…
Dating A Sociopath?: How To Heal From A Breakup
Breakups, in general, suck. Plain and simple. You’re losing a friend, confidant, camping buddy, and so on. However, breaking up with a sociopath is on another level. This is a psychological unraveling that you would think only happens in movies….
How Toxic Relationship Affects Your Health?
Relationships can be one hell of a journey. Often, when reminiscing on past relationships we tend to dwell on the hurt we suffered. Other times we may attribute the best moments of our lives to the time spent with that…
Unhealthy Emotional Attachment: Warning Signs In Relationships
Attachment can be defined as a feeling that binds one to a person, thing, cause, or ideal. It is the state of being attached. There are many ways in which we become attached to someone, and these can be categorized…
Popular Dating Apps May Be Affecting Your Mental Health
Nothing is quite as exciting as signing onto a dating app for the first time. Customizing your profile, swiping around, and getting your first couple of matches makes even the most serious of individuals feel just a little giddy. No…
Signs Of An Emotionally Abusive Relationship
The categories and sub-categories of abuse are substantial. The most commonly thought of being physical abuse. In 2016, a popular hashtag, #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou brought emotionally abusive relationships much-needed exposure and acknowledgment. Women, from all backgrounds and experiences, use this hashtag to…
What To Do In A Toxic Relationship? Set Boundaries!
Facing The Doom Around Us The world can be a frustrating place to navigate on a daily basis. For many of us, the frustration is heightened by the draining effects that you may experience after a long day. It might…