Balance may or may not exist, but it is a goal for those of us juggling life, work, family, a partner, friends, travel and more. Our Black Love community share their stories about how to bring balance into your life along with the challenges and the lessons they learned along the way.
Black Love Creator Codie Elaine Oliver was featured in the Summer 2020 issue of CEOMOM Magazine.
New rules apply when your living space also turns into an office setting. So here are 21 things to consider when working from home with your partner.
Actress and TV host Khadeen Ellis is charting a new path for herself with her new YouTube channel, “Ok Kay Kay.” Overcoming self-doubt is one hurdle she conquered to bring this vision to life - a familiar tale for many.
We asked the staging-blacklove.kinsta.cloud community, “What’s the most surprising thing about being married?” Here’s what you had to say. In today’s society, so much attention is paid to marriage prep. From the celebrations –– the engagement, the bridal shower, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the ever-important wedding, to the work –– pre-marriage counseling, pre-engagement counseling, and endless advice sessions from friends and family, couples are doing their best to equip themselves for the everlasting “I Do.” But no matter how prepared one might be, there are always some surprises after “happily ever after.”
Black Love Live is back! Watch as these three couples explore the nuances and complexities of building a solid foundation with your life partner in front of a live audience.
Signing up for entrepreneurship, there are so many things that you don’t realize or expect. I didn’t know I would lose friends, I didn’t know that people would change around me, and I certainly did not know my marriage would take a hit and change! WOW - I wasn’t ready.
She got her dream job offer 2,827 miles across the country, and her partner agreed to move to be with her. But the story was just beginning.
When Courtney Williams blended her family, she prepared the best she could. But there were lessons that only practice could teach her.
She thought that her happiness was her husband’s responsibility. But once she took control of her emotions, her entire life changed.
When author Jennifer Allen realized her marriage was heading in the wrong direction, she created an interactive journal to help reignite her relationship.
After months, they finally agreed on a therapist. But the resulting session wasn’t what they expected. Here is what they learned.
There is an idea that marriage is a “happily ever after," but this writer has learned even happily ever after has its issues.
There are many methods of keeping your sex life spicy, and LaToya Scott Brown from season 1 of Black Love is sharing her secret to staying satisfied.
Black Love’s Co-Founder and Publisher Tommy Oliver counters Mo’Nique’s message on side chicks and explains why every Black woman deserves a healthy relationship to thrive in and be treated like a Black Queen.
Essence Magazine’s Senior Entertainment Editor Joi-Marie McKenzie shares her journey from heartbreak to finding love with Black Love’s Myeisha Essex.
In life, and in marriage, there are various seasons, but sometimes it takes not getting lost in one to move on to the next.
“Mompreneurship". It’s a relatively new term for a long-held tradition – mothers who run their own companies. But what's it like to be a mompreneur? Black Love asked millennial mompreneur, jewelry designer, and business strategist Mel R. White.
From the greatest lessons learned in marriage to keeping the spark alive, relive the top 10 moments from the first season of Black Love featuring Viola Davis, DeVon Franklin and more.
Amy Hampton prayed for success for her company, Sociologie Wines. But as her prayers were answered and her company grew, she learned that trying to balance it all is the new skill set on the table –– and it comes with its own difficulties and surprises.
Where is the balance of being a wife and mother, husband and father, and you? I tuned in to Black Love Live to find out.
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