A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Expectations, Gender, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Women on Sep 2nd, 2014
Does marriage change you as a person? According to Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, who has been married all of six weeks so we’ll have to take whatever he says with a grain of salt, being married makes him feel more “masculine.” “If it’s the right marriage, if it’s the right person, the guy feels a […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Fathers, Marriage, Men, Parenting, Relationships, Stereotypes on Aug 19th, 2014
Recently, there was an article on the HuffPost that I found somewhat disturbing. A newly divorced mom who admits she married young — 21 and just out of college — to a man with mental challenges. They eventually divorced with young children and now she has to co-parent with him as former spouses. If co-parenting […]
Posted in Expectations, Men, Relationships, Stereotypes, Women on Jun 2nd, 2014
I have been hesitant to jump on the #YesAllWomen bandwagon, the hashtag and social media movement that arose in the wake of the horrific killings in Isla Vista last week. Yes, the 22-year-old killer was full of hatred for women, but he was also mentally ill and privileged and so it’s way too complicated to […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Men, Millennials, Relationships on May 19th, 2014
Do Millennial men want to marry? A Time article, “Debunking the Myth of the Slippery Bachelor,” declared men want to marry as much as women do, according to a study of 5,200 people 21- to 65-plus years old. The standout were men ages 25 to 49 — they were less inclined to get hitched than […]
Posted in Expectations, Family, Gender, Love, Marriage, Men, Mothers, Relationships, Stereotypes, Women on May 5th, 2014
Actress Kirsten Dunst, who graces the cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK this month, caused quite the kerfuffle recently when she expressed how she she feels about being a woman. “I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Singles, Stereotypes on Apr 29th, 2014
So, People magazine’s two-time Sexiest Man Alive George Clooney is evidently engaged. It shouldn’t be such a big deal — just another celeb tying the knot, right (well, except for broken hearts everywhere)? But Clooney isn’t just a celeb; he has represented an old-fashioned myth that persists even today — the perpetual bachelor. When I […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Friends, Love, Men, Relationships on Mar 3rd, 2014
I caught up with a friend over coffee recently, and we eventually got around to what was going on in our love life. The last time we saw each other, he was wrestling with the desire to have kids of his own one day and his relationship with a wonderful woman whose kids are older […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Men, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Feb 24th, 2014
Should women make men wait to have sex? There’s been a flurry of discussion lately about that lately, first with the release of a video “The Economics of Sex” by the Austin Institute, a new academic initiative that conducts research on family, marriage and relationships (you can watch it below). I am quite leary about […]
Posted in Aging, Divorce, Friends, Love, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Women on Jan 21st, 2014
Buzz Aldrin has been promoting his new book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, which details his plan to have space travel and a permanent presence on the Red Planet by the 2030s. As controversial as that may be for some, he made just as many headlines when the former astronaut started dating […]
Posted in Aging, Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Jan 15th, 2014
Here’s what’s happened in the past year — two girlfriends have gotten engaged, and one has her condo on the market and is looking with her boyfriend to buy a new place and move in together. They are all 50-something, empty-nesters and divorced. Who says middle-aged women can’t find love again? I call BS. And […]
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