A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Beauty, Divorce, Expectations, Relationships, Wife, Women on Mar 23rd, 2015
It has been pretty amusing to watch the reactions this week to an off-handed comment actress Eva Mendes made about sweatpants: “No, no, no, no! You can’t do sweatpants. No. Ladies, number one cause of divorce in America? Sweatpants. No. Can’t do that.” She apologized with good humor on Instagram a few days later, blaming […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships on Mar 17th, 2015
If there’s one thing almost all of us can agree on when it comes to divorce it’s worrying about the kids: How will divorce impact them? That’s the reasoning behind the wrong-headed push to make divorce harder in this country for parents of minor children and it’s why no one seems to be too upset […]
Posted in Beta marriage, Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Millennials, Relationships, Sex on Mar 9th, 2015
The wedding season is approaching and just as weddings have changed into grand and expensive events, and with an expected boom in weddings for same-sex couples, there are some major shifts afoot in the way we love, partner, become parents and indulge our sexual passions. Given that, here’s what I predict, based on current trends […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Relationships on Mar 2nd, 2015
A few of my friends have made a name for themselves by their work, whether as an ER doctor or an author. One made it by her husband’s infidelity. Not to say that she wasn’t an amazing woman on her own; she clearly was and is. But when local media picked up on the blog […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Sex, Women on Feb 23rd, 2015
When I interviewed Eve Pell, who chronicles late-in-life marriages, including her own, in Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, I, as usual, researched her life so I didn’t have to ask her questions I already could get answers to. In my research, I discovered her socialite mother cheated on her father, ran off with […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Feb 17th, 2015
You were in love. It didn’t work out. You split. Then one day something happens — maybe your parent dies or you get sick or you realize you’re tired of the dating game at midlife — and you start thinking, “I want my ex back.” No worries because there are thousands of “proven techniques” on […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Love, Relationships, Singles on Feb 10th, 2015
Please forgive me. I am writing a post about Valentine’s Day even though I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. Yet I feel I’d be amiss if I didn’t at least acknowledge it like everyone else, which is, of course, part of the problem. It’s the kind of holiday (and I say that while […]
Posted in Aging, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Midlife, Relationships, Sex on Feb 2nd, 2015
Aging is OK, given the alternative. But when my nine-year relationship ended about a year ago and I threw myself back into the dating world again, a thought crossed my mind from time to time — will I ever find love again? Not marriage or someone to live with necessarily, because I’m not sure I […]
Posted in Children, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Sex on Jan 27th, 2015
We were fortunate to have been asked to be on The Better Show to talk about The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels with co-hosts JD Roberto and Kristina Behr. We spoke with them first, and then had a conversation with Lori Zaslow and Jennifer Zucher, co-owners of the matchmaking service […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Jan 20th, 2015
I was honored to be able to present some of the research on how marriage is changing that Susan Pease Gadoua and I unearthed while writing The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels before a group of therapists recently. As has been true in the many years I have been a […]
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