A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on Dec 1st, 2011
When the anatomically correct, customizable, touch-responsive, personality-changing sexbot named Roxxxy was unveiled at the Adult Entertainment Expo in 2010, it — she? — was met with a lot of snarky responses. Only losers and perverts would be interested in shelling out $7,000 for a glorified sex toy, many said. Inventor and TrueCompanion founder Douglas Hines […]
Posted in Divorce, Family, Parenting, Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2011
As we slide into the Thanksgiving holiday, I am feeling pretty thankful for a lot of things, including the chance to have met and been able to profile Dixie James and her daughter Holly. Their story is pretty inspiring; Holly was born with Down syndrome, and anyone who has a special needs child knows how […]
Posted in Divorce, Family, Marriage, Men, Stereotypes, Women on Nov 16th, 2011
I have been thinking a lot about marriage recently. Not to be confused with thinking about marrying — I am not. Having done it twice, I think I’m pretty much done with that institution. I just can’t see how it would add anything to my wonderful relationship that I’m absolutely committed too (and vice versa). […]
Posted in Divorce, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Stereotypes on Aug 12th, 2011
As far as celebrity splits go, Olivia Wilde and Tao Ruspoli’s seems pretty easy. At least the “Cowboys & Aliens” actress and the prince, married for eight years, don’t have any kids. But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Fathers, Marriage, Men, Women on Jul 13th, 2011
Gabriel Aubry is being a bad dad. Well, we don’t know that for a fact; all we know is that actress Halle Berry, with whom the model had a daughter, now 3, is claiming that he’s been neglectful. She may be right, she may be wrong, but in the eyes of much of the world, […]
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 Jun 8th, 2011
He’s sexually “inappropriate.” He lies about it for a while, but gets busted anyway. He apologizes to everyone he’s hurt, mostly his wife. Can you guess whom I’m talking about? The joke is that men often think with the wrong head. But with all the high-profile sexual misadventures of late — Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, […]
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 […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Jan 26th, 2011
I had been following the on-again, off-again, on-again divorce of Sean Penn and Robin Wright for a while, not because I’m celeb crazed but because before Penn took off for Haiti and Wright to L.A., they lived just a few miles from me. I sometimes would see Wright around town, looking like any other San […]
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