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 Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Needs, Parenting, Politics, Single parents, Singles, Stereotypes, Women, Work on Feb 12th, 2019
If conservatives continue to tell women not to have abortions, how will society support those women when they actually listen to them? Because they’re going to need that help.
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 Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Love, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Dec 31st, 2018
We love our children, our partners, and we want to protect them. It’s understandable. And yet, it’s probably the worst thing we can do for them.
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, […]
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Gender, Happiness, Marriage, Men, Millennials, Mothers, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Wife, Women, Work on Dec 4th, 2018
When I wed for the second time, my hubby and I knew we wanted to have kids. We agreed that we wanted someone to be at home, and since he was older and much more established in his career than I was, we decided he’d be the breadwinner and I’d be the homemaker. Still, I […]
Posted in Caregiving, Expectations, Gender, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Needs, Relationships, Wife, Women on Nov 27th, 2018
Marriage makes people healthy. Or at least that’s what we are constantly told, according to studies that pop up from time to time. While singles advocate Bella dePaulo frequently writes articles debunking those studies, now a new study indicates that, well, she may be both right and wrong. Marriage does help in keeping some people […]
Posted in Aging, Caregiving, Dating, Divorce, Expectations, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Needs, Relationships, Women on Sep 25th, 2018
There’s been a lot of talk about so-called gray divorces — people aged 50 and older who exit their often long-term marriage for a variety of reasons. Some look forward to their newfound freedom as singles, some seek casual arrangements, some are eager to partner again but not marry, and some remarry and replicate the […]
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