A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Women on Apr 7th, 2015
It wasn’t too many years ago that people believed children should be seen and not heard. Now kids have become the center of their parents’ universe. But that hasn’t necessarily been good for the kids whose parents hover over their every thought and action: According to recent studies, college students who have helicopter parents were […]
Posted in Beauty, Divorce, Expectations, Relationships, Wife, Women on Mar 23rd, 2015
It has been pretty amusing to watch the reactions this week to an off-handed comment actress Eva Mendes made about sweatpants: “No, no, no, no! You can’t do sweatpants. No. Ladies, number one cause of divorce in America? Sweatpants. No. Can’t do that.” She apologized with good humor on Instagram a few days later, blaming […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships on Mar 17th, 2015
If there’s one thing almost all of us can agree on when it comes to divorce it’s worrying about the kids: How will divorce impact them? That’s the reasoning behind the wrong-headed push to make divorce harder in this country for parents of minor children and it’s why no one seems to be too upset […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Relationships on Mar 2nd, 2015
A few of my friends have made a name for themselves by their work, whether as an ER doctor or an author. One made it by her husband’s infidelity. Not to say that she wasn’t an amazing woman on her own; she clearly was and is. But when local media picked up on the blog […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Sex, Women on Feb 23rd, 2015
When I interviewed Eve Pell, who chronicles late-in-life marriages, including her own, in Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, I, as usual, researched her life so I didn’t have to ask her questions I already could get answers to. In my research, I discovered her socialite mother cheated on her father, ran off with […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Feb 17th, 2015
You were in love. It didn’t work out. You split. Then one day something happens — maybe your parent dies or you get sick or you realize you’re tired of the dating game at midlife — and you start thinking, “I want my ex back.” No worries because there are thousands of “proven techniques” on […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Jan 20th, 2015
I was honored to be able to present some of the research on how marriage is changing that Susan Pease Gadoua and I unearthed while writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels before a group of therapists recently. As has been true in the many years I have been a […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Dec 23rd, 2014
I am a big fan of Grammy-award-winning musician Marc Cohn and usually catch his shows whenever he’s in the Bay Area. So I was saddened to hear that after his wife of 12 years, TV news anchor Elizabeth Vargas, had entered rehab — again — late last year the couple, parents to two boys, 11 […]
Posted in Aging, Divorce, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Women on Dec 8th, 2014
We all know the tired stereotype — that older men prefer to marry younger women. Case in point, the newly married George Clooney, 53, and Amal, 36. But he’s fabulously wealthy and handsome — surely not every man can attract a younger babe. Except, many do. A new Pew study indicates that 20 percent of […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Women on Nov 17th, 2014
Here’s how we imagine it will be: We stand before our beloved the people who matter to us — parents, relatives, friends — and we vow to love, honor and cherish our beloved “until death do us part.” Except, many of us have decided to replace “until death do us part” with “for as long […]
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