A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Love, Marriage, Relationships on Aug 25th, 2015
The Ashley Madison hack is still topic No. 1 in the media — from divorce attorneys predicting a “Christmas in July” boon to their business, to potential extortion threats and suicides because of the sensitive information leaked, to continued shaming of those whose names were found on the site’s database — and it doesn’t look […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Millennials, Relationships on Aug 11th, 2015
It was an unusually honest and emotional baby announcement, especially coming from Mark Zuckerberg. Recently, Facebook’s founder announced (on Facebook, natch) that he and wife of three years, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl. That was the happy part. Then came his frank confession of how hard it had been for them: “We’ve been […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Singles on Jul 28th, 2015
Perhaps you saw the recent Huffington Post article, “I want to be single — but with you.” It’s likely you did because it was shared more than 27,000 times, liked by 168,000 people and garnered almost 900 comments. The gist of the post by Canadian writer Isabelle Tessier is this — she wants to have […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships on Jul 7th, 2015
With all the fake divorce alerts certain media want to put out there — everyone from Brad and Angelina to Ellen and Portia to George and Amal to the seemingly forever-divorcing Will and Jada — it was hard to give any weight to rumors of Ben and Jen splitting until they announced it last week, […]
Posted in Children, Expectations, Infidelity, LGBT, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Single parents, Singles, Stereotypes on Jun 30th, 2015
It’s been a monumental week. If you have one of the masses who welcomed allowing same-sex couples to marry, then the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday was a blessed decision. Coming right before Pride celebrations across the country, it made the yearly event even that much more proud and colorful. So it was hard for […]
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, Marriage, Relationships on Jun 9th, 2015
You’ve finally met someone special, someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. Congratulations. Perhaps you are one of the thousands of couples who will say “I do” this month — the most popular month to tie the knot. Whether you end up making it “until death” or not, the intention to […]
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 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 […]
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