A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Children, Cohabitation, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Millennials, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Weddings on Sep 10th, 2014
Last week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie tied the knot — or finally tied the knot if you’re a follower of pop culture websites or mags. While they didn’t follow the typical trajectory — meet, date, fall in love, become a committed couple, move in together, wed, have kids — they ended up in the […]
Posted in Beta marriage, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Millennials, Relationships on Aug 5th, 2014
The past week has brought into our lexicon the idea of a beta marriage — a limited term marital contract — thanks to an article in Time magazine by Jessica Bennett, “The Beta Marriage: How Millennials Approach ‘I Do,‘ based on a (clearly unscientific) survey conducted by the USA Network in conjunction with Satisfaction, its […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Gender, LGBT, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Jul 21st, 2014
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most famous, richest and powerful women in the world — she recently interviewed Matthew Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son and launched her own tea, Tevana, with Starbucks — and beloved by many. And yet even she isn’t free from having to defend her choices. Oprah is unmarried, although she […]
Posted in Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships on Jul 14th, 2014
Maybe it’s my age, but when I hear the phrase “on the radio” it’s kind of hard not to break out into Donna Summer’s “On the Radio” (where we you in 1979?) So, Susan and I were on Canadian radio last week (thank you for the love, Canada!) and I thought I’d share the conversations […]
Posted in Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on Jun 23rd, 2014
Do you owe your spouse sex? If you stop having sex with your spouse, is he or she justified in having an affair? And isn’t the denial of sex just as much as a betrayal as infidelity? These were some questions raised in a few interesting blog posts, some as responses to reader comments, on […]
Posted in Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on May 27th, 2014
Adultery. What shall we do with it? Most just wish it would go away, and others — like myself — wonder what the high percentages of infidelity say about the institution of marriage. So I was intrigued by two interesting articles that appeared in the Philosopher’s Mail. Part one talks about the pleasures of adultery: […]
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 Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships, Stereotypes, Women on Apr 14th, 2014
There are lots of different reasons why couples call it quits but no matter how or why, all divorced people have one thing in common — being asked, “So, why did you get divorced?” It isn’t necessarily a bad question: sometimes the answer helps people gauge their own relationships. Often, the answer illuminates the divorced […]
Posted in Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships on Apr 8th, 2014
Loss. There’s been so much of it lately it’s become my most despised four-letter word. The death of my mother in 2010 and my father last year, resulting in the loss of contact with my only sibling (this is probably a healthy loss, however, but a loss nonetheless), the loss of an eight-year relationship late […]
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 […]
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