Don’t Try This at Home: Adultery in the Marital Bed By JOYCE WADLER January 12, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/garden/13cheat.html?_r=1&sq=marital%20bed&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all THE woman who came to see Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer, had reason to be enraged: her husband was not only having an affair, he was also having an extravagant, money’s-no-concern, fabled-and-faraway-beaches affair. He had taken his...
Alpha Women, Beta Men by Ralph Garner, Jr. from New York Magazine After dropping off their children at their East Side private school one morning, Betsy and another mother shared a secret. “It was one of those things where you circle around each other,” Betsy remembers. “I assumed they had a pretty conventional marriage.”...
Don’t Marry Career Women by Michael Noer How do women, careers and marriage mix? Not well, say social scientists. Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career. Why? Because if many social...
By DEVAN SIPHER Published: December 17, 2010 WHAT happens when love comes at the wrong time?Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla met in 2006 in a pre-kindergarten classroom. They both had children attending the same Upper West Side school. They also both had spouses. Part “Brady Bunch” and part “The Scarlet Letter,” their story has...
So news broke a few days ago about the split between actress, Courtney Cox (from the hit show “Friends”), and her husband, actor, David Arquette. I can’t say I’ve been following it closely, but I guess I’m following it closely enough to report this post to you. Get this (now, i’m gossiping), David says...
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Why I Still Loved My Abuser from Yahoo SHINE Oct 4, 2010 This time last year, I was in what I thought was a wonderful relationship. Only now, in hindsight, can I look back and recognize all of the warning signs. But that’s usually how things work out, right? Only until the final events...
So, I think I’ve already told you about how I feel on this subject here. Now, here’s a 2008 article from the Sunday Times (presumably an English newpaper) by Kate Spicer. Why some women choose to ignore their husband’s infidelities by Kate Spicer From The Sunday Times December 7, 2008 On the day...
While I was looking around on the web for what other people had to say about the whole “Men Are Simple” theory, I ran into this thoughtful well written post by a man. A huge excerpt of the post is below. “Men are simple, women are complicated”: another corollary to the myth of male...
originally printed in Elle Magazine. by anonymous I saw you the other day at that place downtown near the arch, you know the one. We used to eat fish there. I never liked fish, but we ate it. You looked good, you know. I was glad, it’s been a while since we split,...
The deeply private moment when cheating begins… from Esquire Magazine By Chuck Klosterman Today we begin with a hypothetical question, which–on its surface–may seem to have a straightforward, obvious, undeniable answer. However, this question raises a larger point about everything we pretend to understand about relationships, and particularly what we assume we understand about...
from Oprah.com By Anonymous O, The Oprah Magazine | March 19, 2010 What happened to her marriage made her come undone. Now, piece by piece, she’s putting it all back together. I have a black lace push-up bra left over from my days as a mistress. I was in my early 30s then, and...
You Can’t ‘Fix’ an Abuser Taken from The Root.com By: Lynette Holloway Posted: August 9, 2010 at 12:15 AM Black women continue to be at greatest risk for lethal violence in intimate relationships. As the tragic case of a murdered marriage counselor shows, thinking you can help an abusive partner may be one of the most dangerous...
In Massachusetts, if you are the second wife, your income will be used to supplement your husband’s alimony payments to his first wife. What? from ABC news by Alice Gomstyn Nov. 6, 2009 Stress over alimony payments to her husband’s ex-wife nearly drove Deborah Scanlan to divorce. Helping her husband make alimony payments to...
