A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships on Aug 25th, 2015
The Ashley Madison hack is still topic No. 1 in the media — from divorce attorneys predicting a “Christmas in July” boon to their business, to potential extortion threats and suicides because of the sensitive information leaked, to continued shaming of those whose names were found on the site’s database — and it doesn’t look […]
Posted in Beta marriage, Dating, Divorce, Expectations, Love, Relationships, Singles on Aug 18th, 2015
Evidently, love is dead. At least, that’s what far too many websites and magazines stated when rockers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale called it quits after 13 years of marriage and three kids. But then again, the same was said about Kermit and Miss Piggy as well as Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, Will Arnett […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Millennials, Relationships on Aug 11th, 2015
It was an unusually honest and emotional baby announcement, especially coming from Mark Zuckerberg. Recently, Facebook’s founder announced (on Facebook, natch) that he and wife of three years, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl. That was the happy part. Then came his frank confession of how hard it had been for them: “We’ve been […]
Posted in Beauty, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Relationships, Sex, Stereotypes on Aug 4th, 2015
Should you ever hire a beautiful woman? That seems to be the issue behind some of the discussion around allegations that Ben Affleck has been dating — or at least having inappropriate meetings — with Christine Ouzounian, the nanny who has been taking care of the three children he and Jennifer Garner have together. When […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Singles on Jul 28th, 2015
Perhaps you saw the recent Huffington Post article, “I want to be single — but with you.” It’s likely you did because it was shared more than 27,000 times, liked by 168,000 people and garnered almost 900 comments. The gist of the post by Canadian writer Isabelle Tessier is this — she wants to have […]
Posted in Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on Jul 21st, 2015
I imagine this week’s news — that AshleyMadison.com, the website that encourages affairs, was hacked — has caused a certain amount of angst among the website’s 37 million-plus subscribers, many of whom are married or in committed relationships. Infidelity relies on secrecy, and with hackers demanding that the website and and its partner site, Established […]
Posted in Expectations, Family, Fathers, Gender, Men, Mothers, Relationships, Women on Jul 14th, 2015
In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage for same-sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Jul 7th, 2015
With all the fake divorce alerts certain media want to put out there — everyone from Brad and Angelina to Ellen and Portia to George and Amal to the seemingly forever-divorcing Will and Jada — it was hard to give any weight to rumors of Ben and Jen splitting until they announced it last week, […]
Posted in Children, Expectations, Infidelity, LGBT, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Singles, Stereotypes on Jun 30th, 2015
It’s been a monumental week. If you have one of the masses who welcomed allowing same-sex couples to marry, then the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday was a blessed decision. Coming right before Pride celebrations across the country, it made the yearly event even that much more proud and colorful. So it was hard for […]
Posted in Expectations, LGBT, Marriage, Relationships, Women on Jun 23rd, 2015
While the Supreme Court and Americans debate whether marriage for same-sex couples is OK, two studies on same-sex couples came out recently that caught my eye and should catch yours, too. Many people are worried that marriage between same-sex couples will change marriage and these new studies indicate, yes, it may — for the better […]
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