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Another Failed Relationship

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025momonthegoinholytoledo

Let’s just get this out of the way, I’ve had my fair share of heartbreak.

Three Common Relationship Pitfalls and How to Navigate Them

November 2, 2025momonthegoinholytoledo

Relationships are beautiful, complex, and at times deeply challenging. While love is often the spark that brings two people together, maintaining a healthy partnership takes self-awareness, communication, and mutual respect. Below are three issues that often sneak into relationships and how to proactively address them.

How to save your relationship! Includes 50+ Date Night Ideas in Toledo

August 23, 2025momonthegoinholytoledo

Feeling underappreciated? Feeling unseen? Feeling like you are just a bank account or a glorified maid/nanny? You are not alone. One in three married people over 45 says they feel lonely in their relationship. Why? It’s not just one thing but a combination over time. Contributing potential factors include parenting overload, unresolved conflict, distractions from technology, unmet emotional needs, falling into a routine, lack of emotional connection, and lack of quality time together. The question is, can it be saved? The quick answer, yes! Will it be easy? No. You will need to undo bad habits and stop placing your relationship on the back burner; it needs to be the priority. And it starts with this one thing!

The Honeymoon Phase Is Over

March 17, 2024March 17, 2024momonthegoinholytoledo

On my commute home from work the song Escape came on, I’m sure we’re all familiar with the popular lyrics, “If you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, if you’re not into yoga, if you have half a brain…”. Have you ever actually contemplated those lyrics?

5 Reasons Codependency and Addiction Often Go Hand in Hand

January 8, 2024February 6, 2024momonthegoinholytoledo

Codependency and addiction are often closely intertwined. This dynamic arises frequently in relationships where one partner is battling an addiction. Both parties feel needed by the other. The addict needs enabling and the codependent needs to feel helpful and responsible for the addict.

The Most Important Marriage You Will Ever Have Is With You?

April 14, 2023momonthegoinholytoledo

The most important marriage you will ever have is with you? What?! Culture tells us from a young age that one day we’ll find our magical person, our better half, the individual who will complete us and ultimately fulfill our purpose. They will rescue us from the ugliness of life, from our evil stepmother and stepsisters, and awaken us from our slumber, to finally be fully alive with them and live happily ever after. Then at some point in adolescents, we learn through either life experience, or Netflix, that if someone doesn’t make us happy anymore, or if we “fall out of love” (why are we falling, when else in life is falling ever considered a good thing…more on this later) its natural, you simply move on to the next person who can fulfill those needs within you. Here’s the catch, no one will ever be able to fulfill those needs within you except YOU!

Teaching Your Kids About Relationships

October 14, 2022momonthegoinholytoledo

One of the many challenges that you will have to go through as a parent is that of helping your kids to understand relationships as fully and thoroughly as possible. This can be really difficult for a lot of people, and it’s the kind of thing that you are going to want to think about in terms of how you are going to approach it, as the better an idea you have of that, the more likely it is that you will do it right. In this post, we’ll help you by giving some ideas on how you can teach your kids about relationships a little more effectively and honestly.

2021 was a Growth Year

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021momonthegoinholytoledo

2021 was the hardest, most painful year I’ve ever experienced but I can’t hate it. After looking back on the emotional rollercoaster of the past 12 months there is one recurring theme, relationships.