A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Caregiving, Children, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Gender, Happiness, Men, Mothers, Needs, Parenting, Relationships on May 14th, 2019
Women are unhappy with the unequal division of labor; here are 36 questions to see if your partner will be the kind of man you want to have kids with.
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 Children, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships on Apr 16th, 2019
Olivia Jade Giannull is angry that her parents ruined her life. How much damage should parents be allowed to do to their kids And why are they allowed to?
Posted in Family, LGBT, Marriage, Politics, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Single parents, Singles on Apr 9th, 2019
The variations on a theme of family our would-be Democratic presidents are presenting can only help those who have chosen a similar path — or would like to.
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, 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 […]
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