Vicki Larson's OMG Chronicles

Jada Pinkett Smith says she’s not built for a conventional marriage. Are you?

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Gwyneth Paltrow has done it again. She’s upset people because she chooses to follow her own path instead of one society thinks she should be in because, well, “everyone knows divorce is hard and everyone knows married couples live together. Gwyneth has proven them wrong yet again. Recently, she announced that she and her new […]

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Unmarried and child-free women are the happiest people. Or so says Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics. Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: fucking […]

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Women do more more chores and caregiving than men do, and we are getting fed up. Here’s how to change that.

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The variations on a theme of family our would-be Democratic presidents are presenting can only help those who have chosen a similar path — or would like to.

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J.Lo didn’t need to marry again, but J.Lo said didn’t need to marry again but now that’s engaged, was she really telling the truth to her partner and herself, or did she just change her mind?her engagement proves that there are no guarantees in love.

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It’s easy to see why marriage feels scary for Justin and Hailey Bieber. But it’s not marriage per se that’s scary — it’s the idea of marriage as an “until death” commitment that’s scary. And who is taking on more of the scary stuff.

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When I wed for the second time, my hubby and I knew we wanted to have kids. We agreed that we wanted someone to be at home, and since he was older and much more established in his career than I was, we decided he’d be the breadwinner and I’d be the homemaker. Still, I […]

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It’s almost Thanksgiving, the beginning of the holiday season and the kick off of “engagement season.” The pressures around the holidays make many of us unhappy, and even if we’re generally OK with our situations — partnered or not — it’s hard not to buy into the whole “most wonderful time of the year” thing. […]

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On the surface, it would be hard to find a more picture-perfect healthy, happy marriage — especially an uber-public marriage — than Michelle and Barack Obama’s. Despite the temptation to compare our romantic relationships with the curated happy relationships we often see on Instagram and Facebook — and some of us are guilty of that […]

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