A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
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 Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on Jun 16th, 2015
There’s been a lot of discussion about “sexless” marriages, many focusing on how to define “sexless. Honestly, I don’t want to have to turn to a so-called “expert” or another couples’ definition of sexless — I want to determine if my relationship is sexless based on whether my sexual needs, and those of my partner, […]
Posted in Expectations, Love, Relationships on Jun 1st, 2015
I have been enjoying reading Mark Manson, a self-described “author, blogger and entrepreneur.” Recently, he blogged on why people cheat on their partners and I felt compelled to send it to a friend who’d recently gone through an unexpected and painful breakup of an eight-year relationship, albeit unrelated to cheating. “The one time I told […]
Posted in Cohabitation, Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on May 26th, 2015
I feel bad for poor Jennifer Aniston. She gets engaged — finally!!!! — almost three years ago, August 2011, and now people are wondering, well? When is she finally going to get on with her life and tie the knot with fiance Justin Theroux? What’s holding them back? Which has made some people feel compelled […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Fathers, Men, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Women on May 12th, 2015
We just celebrated Mother’s Day and even if you believe, as I do, that it’s another Hallmark holiday like Valentine’s Day, it is always nice to reflect on the women who birthed us or raised us or both. Sometimes, they are not one and the same; many of us were raised or mentored by women […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on May 4th, 2015
A few friends and I were talking about the affairs we either experienced in our own relationships or that we knew of among other friends. And that’s the context in which a married former neighbor’s one-night, tequila-fueled fling while on a gals get-away in Cabo San Lucas was brought up. “I think we’d all forgive […]
Posted in Cohabitation, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Apr 21st, 2015
Enrique Iglesias, son of popular Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias, was in the news recently — not because he came out with a new album or because he’s on a world tour. No, it’s because Iglesias was asked — again — whether he was ever going to marry his girlfriend, former tennis pro Anna Kournikova. Never mind […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Women on Apr 7th, 2015
It wasn’t too many years ago that people believed children should be seen and not heard. Now kids have become the center of their parents’ universe. But that hasn’t necessarily been good for the kids whose parents hover over their every thought and action: According to recent studies, college students who have helicopter parents were […]
Posted in Aging, Children, Dating, Relationships, Women on Mar 31st, 2015
Believing things between the sexes have gotten tense, Esquire magazine explores the state of men and women today in April’s issue. While I can’t say I understand any better what’s going on now that I’ve read the essays, I was particularly drawn to Jen Doll’s essay, The Burden of Choice: What it Means to Be […]
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 […]
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