A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Men, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Sex, Women on Jan 23rd, 2018
In the past week we’ve seen the second women’s march and a spirited discussion about an account of “Grace,” a young woman whose date with comedian Aziz Ansari went horribly awry in her eyes, from being “by far the worst experience with a man I’ve ever had,” to unwanted sex — or what she considers […]
Posted in Beauty, Children, Dating, Expectations, Family, Gender, Happiness, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Women on Dec 26th, 2017
You know the drill — men want to date and marry a younger, beautiful woman and women want to date and marry men who have money and status. Is that still true today? Well, yes and no. In an article originally published at Aeon that has been republished under Creative Commons, professor of psychology Marcel […]
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Dating, Expectations, Happiness, Relationships, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Aug 22nd, 2017
At some point, women recognize that they have sexual power. Often, it happens before we’re ready to have it — we develop breasts at a young age, for instance, and we’re clueless about what that does to boys and men. It’s both scary and exciting, but often more scary than not — until we know […]
Posted in Beauty, Dating, Expectations, Millennials, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Women on Dec 6th, 2016
I’m probably late to the party on this, but evidently millennials aren’t having much sex. Blame it on porn, blame it on hookup culture, blame it on the number of 20-somethings still living it home — maybe it’s all of that or some of that or none of that. Or maybe it’s something different. Like […]
Posted in Beauty, Dating, Expectations, Men, Relationships, Women on Sep 15th, 2015
I have written a few controversial posts in the few years that I’ve been blogging here, but perhaps none upset as many people as the tongue-in-check post I wrote for the Huffington Post in the wake of Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal (the first time, not the second, oy). Everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Jezebel to […]
Posted in Beauty, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Relationships, Sex, Stereotypes on Aug 4th, 2015
Should you ever hire a beautiful woman? That seems to be the issue behind some of the discussion around allegations that Ben Affleck has been dating — or at least having inappropriate meetings — with Christine Ouzounian, the nanny who has been taking care of the three children he and Jennifer Garner have together. When […]
Posted in Beauty, Expectations, Love, Relationships, Sex on Apr 28th, 2015
OK, I will admit it — I grew up a bit of a sci-fi geek. I loved Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Star Trek and read books by Asimov and Bradbury. But I lost my passion somewhere along the way to adulthood with the occasional lapse when movies such as E.T. and Close Encounters of […]
Posted in Expectations, Relationships on Nov 18th, 2013
I’ve been busy interviewing couples for The New I Do recently who experimented with opening their marriage (these have been fun interviews!), and was struck by what one woman told me. Monogamy can be dangerous, she says, because if you’re unable to express your sexuality, express being attracted to other people and be able to […]
Posted in Beauty, Children, Expectations, Relationships on Nov 12th, 2013
Honesty is essential in a relationship. But just how honest should you be? That question is at the center of a rather curious legal suit that made the news last week. A Chinese man divorced his wife for giving birth to what he considers an ugly baby girl, sued her and — astonishingly — won! Believing […]
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Children, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Singles, Women, Work on Apr 1st, 2013
I have been following the kerfuffle over Susan Patton’s letter in the Daily Princetonian, in which the former Princeton grad and mom to two Princeton-educated sons advises Princeton women to nab a hubby on campus before they graduate: “Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market … you will never again be surrounded […]
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