A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Expectations, Family, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Women, Work on Sep 22nd, 2015
I was talking to a GenX journalist friend, in the midst of a divorce, about marriage, divorce, etc., and we acknowledged that, unlike Boomers and Millennials, GenX men can be a bit confused about the massive change in gender roles and what women are looking for in a partner. As we continued our free-rambling conversation, […]
Posted in Beauty, Dating, Expectations, Men, Relationships, Women on Sep 15th, 2015
I have written a few controversial posts in the few years that I’ve been blogging here, but perhaps none upset as many people as the tongue-in-check post I wrote for the Huffington Post in the wake of Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal (the first time, not the second, oy). Everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Jezebel to […]
Posted in Beauty, Expectations, Infidelity, Men, Relationships, Sex, Stereotypes on Aug 4th, 2015
Should you ever hire a beautiful woman? That seems to be the issue behind some of the discussion around allegations that Ben Affleck has been dating — or at least having inappropriate meetings — with Christine Ouzounian, the nanny who has been taking care of the three children he and Jennifer Garner have together. When […]
Posted in Expectations, Family, Fathers, Gender, Men, Mothers, Relationships, Women on Jul 14th, 2015
In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage for same-sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or […]
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 Expectations, LGBT, Marriage, Relationships, Women on Jun 23rd, 2015
While the Supreme Court and Americans debate whether marriage for same-sex couples is OK, two studies on same-sex couples came out recently that caught my eye and should catch yours, too. Many people are worried that marriage between same-sex couples will change marriage and these new studies indicate, yes, it may — for the better […]
Posted in Expectations, Love, Relationships on Jun 1st, 2015
I have been enjoying reading Mark Manson, a self-described “author, blogger and entrepreneur.” Recently, he blogged on why people cheat on their partners and I felt compelled to send it to a friend who’d recently gone through an unexpected and painful breakup of an eight-year relationship, albeit unrelated to cheating. “The one time I told […]
Posted in Cohabitation, Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on May 26th, 2015
I feel bad for poor Jennifer Aniston. She gets engaged — finally!!!! — almost three years ago, August 2011, and now people are wondering, well? When is she finally going to get on with her life and tie the knot with fiance Justin Theroux? What’s holding them back? Which has made some people feel compelled […]
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 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 […]
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