A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Stereotypes on Aug 12th, 2011
As far as celebrity splits go, Olivia Wilde and Tao Ruspoli’s seems pretty easy. At least the “Cowboys & Aliens” actress and the prince, married for eight years, don’t have any kids. But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, […]
Posted in Men, Stereotypes on Aug 1st, 2011
A few years ago, my older son expressed an interest in hunting. I was immediately turned off — killing animals? How disgusting! Never mind that this former 12-year vegetarian now eats chicken, fish, pork and the occasional burger without any hesitation, not to mention my (somewhat extensive) collection of leather shoes. If I eat animals, […]
Posted in Stereotypes on Jul 13th, 2011
As luck — bad luck — would have it, I somehow managed to get two black eyes in less than four months. When the second one occurred, thanks to my overly aggressive approach to tree trimming, I ran inside the house to get an ice pack and then called my boyfriend, who heard my cries […]
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Fathers, Marriage, Men, Women on Jul 13th, 2011
Gabriel Aubry is being a bad dad. Well, we don’t know that for a fact; all we know is that actress Halle Berry, with whom the model had a daughter, now 3, is claiming that he’s been neglectful. She may be right, she may be wrong, but in the eyes of much of the world, […]
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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