Psychotherapist Meredith Prescott, LCSW suggests asking yourself this question whenever you feel unsure. “You want to be able to identify if the person can support you in the way you need to be supported,” she tells Bustle.

“It’s so much easier to open up to strangers online about your challenges and insecurities surrounding dating and relationships,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW and couples therapist, tells Elite Daily.

“If we feel like we understand why the person did it, or they have had trauma or tragedies that have influenced their romantic choices, we can relate and be more empathic,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW and couples therapist, tells Elite Daily.

Meredith Prescott, LCSW and couples therapist, says, “I actually recommend dating decks or activities like these very often.”

“It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that our friendships should always be perfect,” she wrote in the Instagram post. “But friendships are just like any other relationship – they involve two people and each person brings their own set of baggage and expectations.

I'm here to tell you that Instagram's version of "self-care" (aka bubble baths, face masks, daily meditation, massage guns, etc., etc.) is not the only way to recharge your body and mind. Shocking, I know.

“Love is an action. It’s a decision,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW, explains. “It requires effort, hard work, and compassion.”

The best piece of advice? “Be confident with humility,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW and couples therapist, tells Elite Daily.

Even mental health pros need help sometimes. Here are the useful tools experts rely on in those moments.

Meredith Prescott vividly remembers how shocking and disorienting her ITP diagnosis was. She was just 21 and starting her senior year at the University of Maryland, College Park. What was to be a memorable and celebratory culminating year of her college experience instead quickly became a year of unexpected change and frightening unknowns surrounding her health.

“You want to be able to identify if the person can support you in the way you need to be supported,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW, a psychotherapist, tells Bustle. So take a second to think if that’s the case in your relationship.

In many ways, whatever was modeled to you as a child is often how you'll relate to others as an adult, Meredith Prescott, LCSW, a psychotherapist in NYC, tells Bustle. If your parents cheated on each other, she says, you may be more likely to expect the same in your own relationships.

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First, remember that there are pros and cons to apologizing via text. “I think it’s fair to say that it is almost always more effective to apologize in person,” Meredith Prescott, LCSW, tells Elite Daily. In-person apologies typically take more effort than digital ones – which counts for a lot when it comes to showing sincerity and remorse.

There are different levels of extroversion and every human is different. Not all extroverts love to be the center of attention, for instance, though many do. Some extroverts tend to be adventurous, while others are more reserved. Your extroverted partner may or may not be the life of every party, but chances are they’ll want to stay until the very end.

One of those possibilities, according to psychotherapist and owner of Prescott Psychotherapy + Wellness Meredith Prescott, LCSW, may be that the increased focus on mental health over the last year resulted in people being more likely to reach out for familial support and medical treatment.

If your partner's current emoji usage (so many crying faces) is anything to go by, it's clear they're having a tough day. Your first instinct might be to text back and insist that you go out for food and watch a movie — anything that would help take their minds off things. And while nine times out of 10, that plan would totally work, sometimes it's best to give your partner space when they're stressed instead.