A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Wife, Women, Work on Apr 30th, 2019
The workplace today is not suited for anyone who has kids or who has to caregive. It’s especially hard for women, who generally do the caretaking.
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Stereotypes on Apr 23rd, 2019
Former First Lady Michelle Obama caught some flack recently when she compared what our country’s going through under Trump to living with “divorced dad.“ We come from a broken family. We are a teenager where, you know, we’re a little unsettled, you know, and having good parents, you know, is tough. Sometimes you spend weekends […]
Posted in Expectations, Men, Millennials, Needs, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Women on Apr 2nd, 2019
More young men than ever aren’t having sex, but young women seem to be doing just fine. Are women finally embracing their sexuality and casual sex?
Posted in Expectations, Men, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Sex, Stereotypes, Women on Mar 19th, 2019
The myth that men always want sex and have higher sexual desire than women not only hurts men, but it also wreaks havoc on their relationships.
Posted in Coupledom, Dating, Expectations, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Feb 5th, 2019
Presidential candidate Cory Booker has never been married while presidential candidate Kamala Harris once dated a powerful politician. Why are we still questioning the romantic choices of single people?
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Gender, Happiness, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Needs, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Wife, Women, Work on Jan 22nd, 2019
The transition into motherhood impacts a woman in numerous ways and the decisions that are made in the first critical weeks after birth have long-lasting and often unhappy consequences for a marriage.
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Gender, Infidelity, Marital plan, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Wife, Women, Work on Jan 15th, 2019
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos both contributed to the wealth of their family. She isn’t “walking away” or being “awarded” that wealth: she earned it.
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Dating, Expectations, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Women on Jan 8th, 2019
French actor Yann Moix caused a stir when he said women his age are “invisible to him.” While that may be sexist and ageist, don’t we all want to be attracted to whom we’re attracted to without judgment?
Posted in Beauty, Expectations, Men, Midlife, Politics, Relationships, Sex, Women on Dec 18th, 2018
Russian agent Maria Butina used age-old seduction — flattery and flirtation, and playing to the desires of powerful older men — to attempt to influence U. S. policy. What do so many men, who have so much to lose, fall sway to young babes?
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Cohabitation, Expectations, Family, Happiness, Love, Marital plan, Men, Needs, Relationship contract, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Women on Dec 11th, 2018
When Mandy Len Catron wrote about her relationship contract with her partner in the New York Times’ Modern Love, it get a lot less love than her earlier and much-read Modern Love essay on the 36 questions that can lead you to fall in love with anyone, which led to her charming and insightful book, […]
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