Suzanne Venker
Author and Relationship Coach
I received an email the other day from a woman who said her husband falls short of being a good husband despite her being a great wife. My emailer insists she follows my advice (as well as the advice of other like-minded authors); but her husband, she says, is using my work to his advantage by, …
“Sexual liberation—the idea that women are entitled to the same sexual agency and opportunities as men—is at the heart of feminism. It’s great in theory. But for young women, it can be a disaster.” So begins Margaret Wente’s 2016 essay at The Globe and Mail. Wente goes on to highlight another 2016 essay at Quartz by recent …
Twenty years ago I got a bee in my bonnet and wrote a book about the needs of children and the significance of parents meeting those needs. I was home with my children at the time, and the Mommy Wars were raging. I was tired of listening to all the propaganda about why it makes no …
The title for this post came from what I thought was a quippy comment on my Facebook page after I’d posted the transcription of a conversation between radio host Dennis Prager and one of his callers, Jennifer, who wanted to offer some advice to young women. Simply put, she warned women that feminism is a …
This article was originally published at The Washington Examiner. It appears the lyrics to the holiday hit song, ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ which tell a story about a man who tries to persuade his date not to risk the journey home in bad weather but to stay with him instead and have one more drink, are so upsetting …
In January, Kelsey turns 30—that life-defining age when many women begin to think about things they should have thought about years ago but didn’t because no one told them they should. That’s because modern women are taught to forget about marriage, or to at least put it off indefinitely, and focus exclusively on their careers. …
It is widely known that prior to women becoming economically independent, wives whose marriages went south were at a disadvantage. If a woman’s husband left her, he was required to pay alimony and child support; but it wasn’t always enough to live on comfortably. Thus, if the wife didn’t have an education or job skills, …
* Note: I’ve had the comment section on my blog turned off, but it has since been re-enabled.In my last post, entitled “How to Be a Man,” I wrote about women “testing” men. Here’s a paragraph from that post:Let’s look, for example, at the parable of Adam and Eve, where God commands them not to eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve disobeys God and eats the apple anyway, and then commands Adam to do the same. What does Adam do? He obeys Eve instead of God. He eats the apple. The moral of
This article was originally published at Fox News.The shock of reading Laura Sessions Stepp’s 2007 book, “Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both,” hadn’t worn off when I was offered the opportunity to view an advanced screening of “The Dating Project,” a film about modern relationships that will be released nationwide—for one night only—on April 17. Both are a wake-up call for Americans, many of whom are in the dark about how dramatically dating has changed.So
A similar version of this article was published at Washington Examiner.When I was in college, I met a young man who, five years later, would become my husband. (Four years and no children later, he became my ex-husband.) When we were dating—this was all the way back in the 1980s, when people still dated—I would needle him about his sexual past after we kept running into women from his high school days. The way they’d say hello to each other made me think they’d been more than friends.After each
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