Relationship
Long term relationship topics
A healthy relationship involves couples sharing their dreams
Spiritual belief and self-growth
Be open in discussing about the similarities and differences of your spiritual beliefs. Also, share with your partner the self-improvements you are experiencing in your life. The intellectual, emotional, and other developments in your life can positively rob off on your partner.
Work and money
The money aspect in a relationship has more to do with what money means to each partner. Endeavor to discuss your budgets, savings, and spending habits. Properly settling any money issue will help to avoid a lot of possible money conflicts later. Also, talking about a new project or boss at work helps both of you understand what your lives are like when apart.
Family
Discussing family ties help both of you understand what type of relationship you have with your family members. Discuss what you like or dislike about your families and how to replicate or avoid such. This should also involve talk about children. This is important as they tend to have an impact on your relationship satisfaction.
Plans and ambitions
A healthy relationship involves couples sharing their dreams. Discuss any goals you have set for yourself with your partner. Also, what are your shared goals as a couple? The time and effort put into planning or trying something together as a couple helps to keep both of you closer.
Fears and insecurities
Share your fears, shortcomings, and insecurities with your partner. This can help make the situation a lot more tolerable. Learn to admit when you make mistakes. Tell them what your worries are as a problem shared is a problem half solved. When you reveal your struggles and weaknesses, you are giving your partner the courage to do same. They’ll become more at peace with you and more likely to respond by expressing a desire to be there for you. Vulnerability with your partner is OK and at least it helps you to be understood.
Feelings
This is a very important component of communicating in a healthy relationship. Be open to talk about your feelings with your partner. If you have something in your mind you want to tell them, don’t hold it back. Do you feel neglected, angry, hurt, or disappointed? Open up and share it with your partner.
Remember that the more substantive couple conversation topics you have with your partner, the better. This has the power to bring both of you closer and make you happier as a couple. So, go and have some more intellectual conversations.
Aries
You are a warrior by nature, try to balance out your own needs to ensure you do not give all of yourself to another. Give yourself some love, too!
Taurus
Do not fret, the secrets being hidden are not bad and are beneficial to your future. In fact, you will be super happy when they are revealed. Then, you can make strategic moves forward.
Gemini
Your friendship circle is evolving, allowing you to meet new people who will become your best buds over time. Embrace the rare chance to connect and engage with others you meet now.
Cancer
Home is where your heart is this week. And the more reason for you to start making yourself feel cozier in your space now. Treat yourself to a few new items to decorate and spruce up your pad to get in the spring spirit. Add fresh.
Leo
Lean into your higher mind and vibe. This will give you the ultimate opportunity to achieve personal fulfillment and spiritual growth over the next few months. Doing so will encourage you to reach new personal heights.
Virgo
Standing up for yourself takes a lot of guts and confidence. Luckily for you, you are able to assert your view against others and defend yourself against those who aim to bring you down.
Libra
Making your mark on the world is challenging, but you are headed in the right direction. As long as you accept that you need to be a leader rather than an innovator in your endeavours, you can take on your goals with success.
Scorpio
You are being introspective and plotting your next moves on and off this week. Take this time and energy to strategise the upcoming sunny days, so you can use them to your advantage and achieve your desires.
Sagittarius
It is time to get creative! This means busting out your drawing board, paintbrushes and colour palette to make art. Whether it is for professional endeavours or for pleasure, you will be inspired to bring your passions to light
Capricorn
Work is becoming very chaotic at the moment and requires all of your time, but you have the chance to balance out your vibe and not focus on professional endeavours. Find your chill spot and lean into self-care.
Aquarius
You are feeling extra chatty and more able to engage with friends. Word of advice: think before you speak to avoid conflict with others.
Pisces
This week gives you the chance to restart, reboot and get motivated to take on new opportunities. The question is: Are you ready now?
Attention-Deficit or Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often mistaken for laziness or indiscipline. In consulting rooms across Accra and in reports from school teachers, the pattern repeats: children who are bright but forgetful, parents who feel helpless, teachers who see incompleteness.
Research is clear-Barkley (2015) and others describe ADHD as a difference in the brain’s regulation of alertness, impulse and working memory, not a lack of effort.
The family’s role begins with structure. Regular sleep, predictable meal and homework times, and a simple visual list (uniform → books → water → corridor) provide the external scaffolding these children need. Praise what is completed—“You opened the book and wrote the first sentence”-instead of rebuking what is missing.
Schools can help by seating the child front-row and centre, giving short written plus verbal instructions, allowing brief movement breaks, using quiet nonverbal cues and, where possible, grading effort and method as well as neatness. These adjustments reduce conflict and raise submission rates without lowering standards.
Couples and caregivers should share roles: one grounds, one pivots, and both protect rest. Shame-“bad parenting, bad child”-needs replacing with fact: different wiring, needs scaffolding.
Outcomes improve not by promises of perfection but by daily routines, clear limits and warmed connection. One homework slot kept, one instruction chunked, one calm repair after blurting-these small wins shift the family climate and let the child be seen beyond the label.
Resource
• CPAC (award-winning Mental Health and Counselling Facility): 0559850604 / 0551428486
Source: REV. COUNSELLOR PRINCE OFFEI’s insights on special needs support, relationships, and mental health in Ghana. He is a leading mental health professional, lecturer, ADR Expert/Arbitrator, renowned author, and marriage counsellor at COUNSELLOR PRINCE & ASSOCIATES CONSULT (CPAC COUNSELLOR TRAINING INSTITUTE) – 0551428486 /0559850604.
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