| No Images? Click here   First dates can be tricky. In the best-case scenario, the person you’re meeting is sweet and funny, and the date leads to a wonderful and fulfilling relationship. In other instances, your date is a total dud — or worse, deceptively charming (a narcissist even), and a not-so-great relationship ensues.This week, reporter Brittany Wong talked to experts about how to identify your future ex on the very first date. One clear sign is that he (or she) talks about himself, and only himself.“Your date shouldn’t be monopolizing the conversation,” Amanda Deverich, a marriage and family therapist in Williamsburg, Virginia, told HuffPost. “You may be forgetting to talk about yourself, but a true gentleman will realize you’re doing most of the listening and will want to know more about you… If you have to force him to listen to you, you can be pretty sure this is how the relationship will go in the long run. Cut your losses now.”Read more of the indicators here. And, as a bonus, if you have made it through that first date and developed a relationship with someone, you may want to ask them these 12 unconventional questions. Therapists say that they’re a lot more telling then the standard, “Do you want to have kids?” and “What are your religious beliefs?”— Ashley Rockman In case you missed it
 Ask an expertA reader asks, “My husband and I have been married for 25 years and our only child moved away to college this year, out of state. What specific advice and ideas do you have for couples needing to reinvent their relationship and refocus their energy from being parents pretty much full time to now being a couple full time?”We asked psychotherapist M. Gary Neuman, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Neuman Method, to answer this week’s question. Here’s what he had to say:“Congrats on 25 years! Empty nest syndrome is a real thing. Since you’ve spent most of your married life dedicated to your child, it can feel like a seismic shift when that all changes overnight. Don’t be shaken by the ‘what do we do now?’ feeling; it’s normal and quickly repairable.The Quick Fix:
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