So… when are they going to create an off-button for the brain? We have Google glasses that can tell you everything about anything by just looking at it. But they haven’t created anything to help with the one thing that drives girls insane: overthinking. “OK, so he took 14 minutes to answer my text. Fine, I won’t text you back for 33 minutes! Ha! Take that!” replies immediately RELATED: There Are Only 2 Reasons Why Guys Don’t Text You Back “I’m going to post this Snapchat story just so he sees it and so he knows how much fun I’m having without him!...

What is oxytocin? The naturally occurring chemical “is a hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, a pea-sized structure at the base of the brain.” Like the emotion of love itself, the effects of this powerful hormone can be complicated, and it affects men and women differently in some interesting ways. RELATED: What Happens In Your Brain On A Chemical Level When You Fall In Love, According To Science For example, researchers at the University of Haifa found that “in men, it improves the ability to identify competitive relationships whereas in women it facilitates the ability to identify kinship....

For Cancer, Virgo and Capricorn zodiac signs, the month of October brings challenging horoscopes. We do not have a month of dreary dread, but we do have a few obstacles to deal with, and deal with them we will. RELATED: Each Zodiac Sign’s Monthly Love Horoscope For October 1 - 31, 2022 Some are coming in and some are, thankfully, moving on out. With Mercury retrograde going direct on October 2, we stand a fighting chance at getting through the month, but let’s keep in mind that we’re also dealing with Jupiter retrograde which has a tendency to make us very, very lazy and uninspired....

The search for the Alabama corrections officer and inmate Casey White who was, apparently, her lover has dominated headlines for two weeks. 56-year-old Vicky White is accused of releasing the 38-year-old murder defendant on April 29 before fleeing with him. The couple was tracked to Evansville, Indiana where a police chase left Vicky White dead of an, ostensibly, self-inflicted gunshot wound, but one Sheriff has presented another possibility. Sheriff Singleton says that it’s possible that Vicky White’s fatal gunshot wound was not self-inflicted....

In an interview on the ‘BFFs’ podcast with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards, Gomez, 18, joined with her lawyer, and a video forensic evidence expert, refuted all of the claims made against her by Wright. “It was literally just as shocking to me as it was to everyone else on the internet,” Gomez told Portnoy, adding that she still has no idea where the allegations came from, and hasn’t reached out to Wright since being accused....

Each straw was partially unwrapped and inserted into the drink, leaving a perfect white cap over the green. Each coffee had a stir inserted, though I’d already doctored the drinks with cream and sugar. RELATED: 3 Simple Ways To Build Confidence At Work By Shifting Your Mind I carried one tray in each hand, like a waitress, and set them down at my desk, where I labeled each cup in Sharpie marker....

We have made provisions for our loved ones, and we’ve come to know their ups and downs, ins and outs. We’ve shared our true selves with these people and if they are still here, standing by our side, then we need to call these people ‘keepers.’ This week brings about the strong revelation that life is short, and if we find someone THIS good, then we need to hang on to them....

Who amongst us is strong enough to leave the person they love…for whatever reasons there are? For some, this instantly rings a chord in our psyche, as we recognize the truth in this. One of the hardest things to prepare oneself for is the decision to leave someone we’ve been with, romantically, for years. And yet, during the Moon trine Mercury starting November 3, 2022, once we recognize that something like this has to happen, we can’t get it out of our minds....

And, when we do compromise, we often learn that that’s not what we want either. In other words, there are times in our love lives when we come to realize that we have to fend for ourselves and oftentimes that is seen as selfish or self-serving. RELATED: The 3 Zodiac Signs With Rough Weekly Horoscopes, August 29 - September 4, 2022 During Moon in Scorpio, the desire to do exactly that starts to become energized, and this of course refers to being selfish in love....

One thing is for sure: today will be a great day. We may approach this day as “it’s just another day!” Or, we may step out of our way to absorb all the goodness that comes with today’s new transit, Sun trine Moon. For the first day of the year, to be blessed with the Sun trine Moon is a sign, folks. Day one bringing luck in love? Sign me up!...

As many people feel, September is a month of renewal. In the same way, Spring introduces freshness and the idea of new concepts coming to life, and so does September, in its way. RELATED: The 3 Zodiac Signs With Rough Monthly Horoscopes, September 1 - 30, 2022 While this season is the one that will usher in cold and darkness, September always comes with opportunity and inspiration. During the Aries Moon, that inspiration becomes both obvious and challenging....

While most of us are more realistic and forgiving about this locked-in idealism, we still search for that elusive ’true love,’ In a way, we set ourselves up for the journey of a lifetime, trying to realize this idea. But it is so far-fetched? Just because it’s an ‘ideal’ doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an impossible dream. We are entitled to our dreams, and when we’re young, we want the kind of connection that makes us feel safe, loved, secure and happy....

We’ve all learned certain things about Taurus transits: they can bring about stubborn behavior and laziness. Today, on New Year’s Eve, during the Moon in Taurus, we will concentrate on the stubbornness part of this influential transit. Today is when many things become ‘clear’ to us, one of which is how we feel a strong desire to remain true to ourselves. It’s the last day of the year, and we finally feel we have got it together, mentally and emotionally....

There comes a time in every relationship when we evaluate the rules and regulations that we’ve established during the time we’ve been with our mate. RELATED: The 3 Zodiac Signs With The Best Horoscopes On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 As life goes on, we tend to change, and in relationships, we sometimes want our partners to change as well. Sometimes we ask for too much; perhaps we wish for our partners to become entirely different people and so we pressure them into doing things they wouldn’t do ordinarily....

This transit is wild and free and wants nothing to do with settling down in a relationship. Love is fine, and so is dating, but settling down? Oh no, not that. This transit is for those who can’t possibly think about doing anything that restrictive. That’s not to say we won’t be asked. For a few of us, we have someone in our lives who would like nothing more than to settle into a long-term relationship with us....

This is one of the most sensitive, sensitivity-inducing transits and it is one of the ‘magic’ cosmic events that can actually help us to understand that we must heal if we are to go on. This is a time for healing, and on August 21, we who are hurt will resolve the heartache that we’ve lived with for too long. So, let us use this transit, the Moon in Cancer, as a ray of hope; let us see that we are not defined by the pain we’ve held on to, and that, as if this day forward, we need not grasp so tightly to the heartache that we’ve started to think of as our daily existence....

As we approach the end of the year (yes, you read that right) zodiac signs tend to want things to go smoothly. We don’t have the same kind of ‘get up and go’ as we do in the earlier months. As we wind down, we want to know that the winter months ahead are ‘good to go’ and that we have everything we need. It’s as if we’re just animals that have done enough foraging and now we’re ready for the big hibernation....

On one hand, we’re expected to be psyched out of our minds over the many seasonal holidays, and on the other hand, all we want to do is sit on the couch and binge-watch something old and good. Like…Twilight Zone, or Breaking Bad. Nothing about December says “I want to put all my energy into drama and heavy activity.” All we want at this point is to get it over with while knowing we still have to be happy, peppy, and bursting with love over the holidays....

We fear being rejected, for one. The idea of being in a relationship with someone whom we love and who truly loves us back is SUCH an ideal, that if we let our minds have at it, we usually end up terrorizing ourselves over the possibility of it not working out after all. “What if they don’t really love us, after all?” RELATED: The 3 Zodiac Signs With Rough Weekly Horoscopes, September 19 - 25, 2022 If there’s one transit that can really work that nerve, it’s the Moon opposite Pluto, which occurs on September 20....

Heartache is generally something that occurs after a breakup. Romantically speaking, it’s par for the course, but no one person makes room for it. It may be the destiny of every lover, but no lover accepts that it has to be this way, and so, once again expectation brings disappointment. During Moon trine Venus, we will spend much time inside our heads, going over things like, “Where did I go wrong in my love life and how can I make things better again?...