Actor Hugh Grant got married last week to his longtime partner, Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein, the first time the father of five has tied the knot. He’s 57. That in and of itself is not weird — more couples are having children outside of marriage and many “perpetual bachelors” marry later in life, as […]
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Posted in Dating, Expectations, Happiness, Heartbreak, Love, Marriage, Midlife, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Weddings on May 22nd, 2018
Even if you weren’t glued to the TV to watch the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, even if you managed to avoid the hype in the months before it and even if you don’t buy into the fairy-tale wedding thing — and this is certainly a real-life “my prince has come” story — […]
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Posted in Aging, Children, Divorce, Expectations, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Midlife, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships on May 15th, 2018
If your marriage makes it to the 20th year — when you’re likely at midlife — you’ll either be the happiest you’ve been in your marriage, according to a new study, or you’ll be heading to divorce court, as so many 50 and older people have been doing in recent years, either happily — if […]
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Posted in Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Happiness, Marriage, Mothers, Needs, Parenting, Relationships on May 8th, 2018
We are coming up on Mother’s Day and I am reflecting on my life as a mom and here’s what I’ve come to realize — I was a bad mother. Not to my two boys (well, they’ll have to be the judge of that but, hey, that’s what shrinks are for), but to myself. For […]
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Robots are coming and they’re either going to take your job or save your marriage. Say what? Most of us have heard how robots will impact the workforce … but a marriage? Yes, says economist and Dollars and Sex author Marina Adshade. Recently the professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver read from […]
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