A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
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 Family, Marriage, Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2011
So Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are planning to divorce but remain business partners in their reality TV show “Q’Viva!,” according to the Huffington Post. All I can say is, good luck! It seems sort of romantic to go into business with someone you love and know so well; who better than a spouse to […]
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, […]
Like many adolescents, I used to riffle through my parents’ drawers and closets. It wasn’t that I was so curious about my parents’ “other” life — the one that went on behind the closed doors of their bedroom. Most kids can barely fathom that their parents actually have a life, let alone a sex life, […]
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, 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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