A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Children, Expectations, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Mar 19th, 2013
The HuffPo had a piece today on the double standard on weight gain for spouses. A woman had written to an advice columnist about how fat and lazy her longtime partner — whom she also describes as “intelligent, accomplished, emotionally mature, kind, loving, and funny” — had become, only to be told, “I’m sick, sick, […]
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Sex, Stereotypes, Women on Nov 19th, 2012
The very married Gen. David Petraeus had an affair with a younger woman and the very married Gen. John Allen may have sent inappropriate emails to a younger woman. Whenever powerful men stray, we turn wonder, what’s going on at home? So we turn our attention to the wronged wives, and guess what — Holly […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Men, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes on Aug 7th, 2012
All parents can be embarrassing, but perhaps none more of late than Ike Lochte, mother of Olympian swimmer Ryan Lochte. Poor Ike set off a media firestorm last week when, while trying to explain that her 28-year-old son is too busy to have a girlfriend, said that he “goes out on one-night stands.” Well, that’s […]
Posted in Dating, Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Sex, Women on Jul 23rd, 2012
In a few weeks I will become an empty-nester. Like most parents, I have a lot of emotions about that. My boys, a freshman and a junior, are on their way to being fully independent; it’s what we parents have been teaching our kids how to do from Day 1. We hope we’ve laid the […]
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Children, Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Women on Mar 12th, 2012
When I asked a friend recently how she’s doing, she paused and answered, “I keep wondering if this is all there is.” She, like me, is 50-something and like many 50-somethings we are empty-nesters or about to be empty-nesters; we’re either 20-something years into a marriage or divorced. We’re in the so-called “midlife crisis” years, […]
Posted in Aging, Dating, Men, Sex, Singles, Women on Feb 7th, 2012
A few things went through my head while watching the Super Bowl (beside being thankful that my son gave up football — the injuries! the physical abuse! — and thinking that it would be a bit unfair to be married to Gisele Bundchen and win the Super Bowl). In no particular order, Madonna, aging, Valentine’s […]
Posted in Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Parenting on Jul 5th, 2011
I have been feeling a little like the queen of ugly. I had no idea a blog post written tongue-in-cheek about whether women should marry attractive men or not would create such a furor — Jezebel thinks I’m blaming women for men’s bad behavior (I’m not); Rush Limbaugh thinks I’m a militant feminist (wow, is […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on May 30th, 2011
He may have been the world’s most wanted terrorist at the time he was killed, but it turns out Osama bin Laden was also a typical man. Evidently, bin Laden had an “extensive” stash of porn at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to officials. There’s no way to know if the Mrs. — or […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Sex, Women on May 28th, 2011
Whenever there are a spate of high-profile affairs as there has been lately, the “experts” are all over the media talking about infidelity as if had just been discovered. Once they get over the who, what, where, when and how, they get to the why and, inevitably, try to address the two big questions: “Can […]
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