Archives for March 2018

I read two articles last week that, when juxtaposed, were rather ironic. The first is called “How to Increase Participation in Marriage and Relationship Education,” and the second was the announcement that Donald Jr. and Vanessa Trump, who have five children together, are getting divorced.Today, when we hear news about yet another divorce it’s nothing but a yawn. “That’s too bad,” we think. And then we move on with our day. If we do have other thoughts, such as, “This divorce business is getting

In my last post, I wrote about a very specific sexual dynamic: one in which the woman wears the pants in the relationship. The opposite scenario, of course, is for the man to ‘wear the pants’—which is just a colloquial phrase for taking the lead. But what does that mean exactly? And why does anyone …

I had coffee with a friend the other day, and we were talking about her parents’ marriage. It didn’t take long to realize we both grew up witnessing the same dynamic between our respective parents, both of whom were married for decades. (Hers are still alive; mine are not.) In each marriage, the wife ruled …