A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships, Stereotypes on May 19th, 2015
Is it OK to view marriage as a financial plan? Before you get all “gold-digger” on me (because I’m pretty sure you thought of beautiful women marrying wealthy men as a way to have a lifestyle they want and not beautiful men marrying wealthy women, but OK), let’s explore what’s been in the news recently. […]
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 Divorce, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Millennials, Relationships, Sex on Apr 13th, 2015
Dear Anthony D’Ambrosio, I usually don’t say “I’m sorry” when I hear someone tell me he or she’s newly divorced — often, it’s a happier, healthier outcome — but in your case, I’m truly sorry. You seem a tad nostalgic. You have been blogging about love and relationships since your divorce and a recent post, […]
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 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, 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 […]
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