Welcome to my first installment of relationship advice offering tips, tricks, and memories in an attempt to solve love’s mystery. I have a great schedule of romance readers, authors, and others stopping by every Wednesday to share their wisdom of love. When I put the call out to invite others to participate, I had several say “I’m no expert!” My reply is: “Are there truly any experts in the field of love?” I haven’t met one yet! (Although my husband…he does come pretty close sometimes, LOL!)

So my first installment is about bad relationship advice, and it is brought to you by my loving cat, Romeo. Folks, this is what not to do in a relationship!

Act like you don’t care.

This is actually (bad) advice many people take to heart. And maybe sometimes this reverse psychology does work on certain people. I rarely recommend doing it. If you want a relationship to work, you have to work at it 110% (there is no 50/50). Acting like you don’t care to try to get someone to “chase” you is not the way to do it. (Although it does work with cats.)

Be serious all the time.

Sure, there’s a time to be serious, but then there’s a time to be silly and if you can’t laugh with each other, what can you do?

Don’t share

We all know this is terrible advice. We were taught to share since we were babies. (And Romeo didn’t mind sharing this bedding he founded from a warm pizza box!)

Never trust.

For a cat to lie on their back and show their belly is a huge sign of trust. There’s even a joke out there where a cat does that to be all cute so that when you go pet them, they attack. I raised Romeo from a baby and had to bottle feed him when his feral mother died, so I’d say he trusts me a lot! Trust in a relationship can be difficult, especially if you’ve been in dishonest relationships in the past. Heck I’ve been married twenty-four years and still distrust sometimes because of the intrinsic fear of abandonment. So if you want bad advice, don’t ever trust anyone. But for a relationship to work, you have to trust.

So that’s it. Bad Relationship Advice from a cat who is actually extremely loving. But I hope it made you smile, laugh, or at least roll your eyes. Or maybe even coo at the sweetness of my cat. Because who doesn’t love to share their cat pictures? Be sure to drop by every Wednesday to read what others have to say about love.