A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Children, Cohabitation, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Sep 10th, 2019
Liv Tyler and her fiancee of four years haven’t tied the knot yet, but there are good reasons why.
Posted in Expectations, Happiness, Marriage, Needs, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Wife, Women on Aug 20th, 2019
Posted in Children, Consensual nonmonogamy, Coupledom, Dating, Expectations, Family, Happiness, LGBT, Love, Marriage, Millennials, Parenting, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Sex, Single parents, Singles on Jul 23rd, 2019
Your kid’s in their late 20s. Maybe flirting with their 30s. You know, millennials. They’re forging ahead in their career or graduate school or basically anything else that seems to indicate they are on a path toward self-sufficiency (and what parent doesn’t want to see them nail that?) and a meaningful life. They’re adulting! There’s […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Happiness, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Needs, Relationships, Sex, Wife, Women on Jul 2nd, 2019
I’m not sure how many men read articles or buy books about marriage, and I say this as the co-author of a book on marriage. Although men have historically gained the most from the institution, it’s generally women who are attuned to a relationship’s temperature and, thus, are most likely to read up on how […]
Posted in Children, Cohabitation, Expectations, Family, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Jun 25th, 2019
“Love Actually” writer Richard Curtis and Emma Freud have been together 28 years and have for kids together. They’re not married. Here’s why it matters.
Posted in Expectations, Happiness, Love, Relationships, Romantic relationships on Jun 18th, 2019
Considering how so many people think and say horrible things about people who leave a relationship — especially if they have children, especially if they split to be with someone new — it’s rather surprising that fans were willing to throw that out the window for the sake of the chemistry they perceived between Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
Posted in Expectations, Happiness, Live Apart Together, Needs, Relationships, Stereotypes on Jun 11th, 2019
Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again. She’s upset people because she chooses to follow her own path instead of one society thinks she should be in because, well, “everyone knows divorce is hard and everyone knows married couples live together. Gwyneth has proven them wrong yet again. Recently, she announced that she and her new […]
Posted in Children, Expectations, Happiness, Marital plan, Marriage, Relationship contract, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Singles, Women on May 28th, 2019
Unmarried and child-free women are the happiest people. Or so says Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics. Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: fucking […]
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, Divorce, Expectations, Fathers, Gender, Happiness, Marital plan, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Needs, Parenting, Relationship contract, Relationships, Romantic relationships, Wife, Women on May 7th, 2019
Women do more more chores and caregiving than men do, and we are getting fed up. Here’s how to change that.
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