A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Sex, Women on May 29th, 2012
Of the many conversations couples need to have before they get married — or move in together — comes another one: What role will the Internet play in their relationship and how transparent are they going to be about that? At least that’s the opinion of Beatriz Avila Mileham, who interviewed married people who used […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage on Feb 2nd, 2012
Tall, dark, attractive, blue-eyed, blond, intelligent, athletic, funny, fit, shapely — certain traits turn us on when it comes to finding someone to love. But with couples breaking up all the time and a 50 percent or so divorce rate, those traits mean little when it comes to what really matters — finding someone who […]
Posted in Divorce, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Jan 20th, 2012
You’re married and you discover that your spouse is unfaithful. You’re devastated and consider getting a divorce. But, divorce doesn’t seem to be enough — shouldn’t someone pay for the anguish and shame the affair has caused you? Yes, according to Louisiana State University law professor and tort expert William R. Corbett, whose 2001 paper, […]
Posted in Divorce, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Jan 9th, 2012
There have been lots of responses to my Huffington Post piece “Why Men Need to Cheat” (at last count, 4,042 comments and a lot of responses throughout the web, including one by Chopper Papa), but I then I got an email from a reader who calls himself U.G. Gold. Mr. Gold, a self-described conservative (take that, Culture […]
I shouldn’t be as surprised as I am about the responses to my latest Huffington Post piece, Why Men Need to Cheat — more than 3,800 comments! — but I am. I’m not surprised that the topic would upset people; hey, infidelity is a hot topic (because so many people have their lives touched by […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex on Dec 1st, 2011
When the anatomically correct, customizable, touch-responsive, personality-changing sexbot named Roxxxy was unveiled at the Adult Entertainment Expo in 2010, it — she? — was met with a lot of snarky responses. Only losers and perverts would be interested in shelling out $7,000 for a glorified sex toy, many said. Inventor and TrueCompanion founder Douglas Hines […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Jun 8th, 2011
He’s sexually “inappropriate.” He lies about it for a while, but gets busted anyway. He apologizes to everyone he’s hurt, mostly his wife. Can you guess whom I’m talking about? The joke is that men often think with the wrong head. But with all the high-profile sexual misadventures of late — Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Sex, Women on May 28th, 2011
Whenever there are a spate of high-profile affairs as there has been lately, the “experts” are all over the media talking about infidelity as if had just been discovered. Once they get over the who, what, where, when and how, they get to the why and, inevitably, try to address the two big questions: “Can […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Men, Sex, Women on Jan 26th, 2011
I had been following the on-again, off-again, on-again divorce of Sean Penn and Robin Wright for a while, not because I’m celeb crazed but because before Penn took off for Haiti and Wright to L.A., they lived just a few miles from me. I sometimes would see Wright around town, looking like any other San […]
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