Suzanne Venker
Author and Relationship Coach
The basics of love are honestly so simple. Unfortunately, the main reason modern women struggle in their relationships is that they harbor erroneous beliefs about love. They’re moving through the world with scripts they learned from their parents and from the culture. And these scripts predict whether or not you’ll be successful in love. All …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. With Father’s Day upon us, the time has come to address as a nation what Heather Mac Donald noted earlier this year is “the greatest social catastrophe of our time”: fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is the No. 1 cause of nearly all social ills we face. We can’t afford to …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. My co-author for this piece is Terry Brennan, co-founder of LW4SP. So-called “toxic masculinity” is having a moment. The popular recognition of this intersectional feminist belief was exacerbated by the American Psychological Association’s “guidelines” for working with men and boys. These guidelines were compiled by the …
Remember the Notre Dame leggings controversy last month? If you missed it, I wrote about it here. Well, it turns out the mother of that editorial, Maryann White, wrote a response to the incredibly brutal and childish backlash she received and asked Notre Dame to publish it, and they wouldn’t. So she contacted me, and …
For years now it has been the norm for Western women to view their twenties as that coveted time in which they’re supposed to “find themselves.” The assumption is that in the past, prior to feminists “freeing” women from their formerly oppressed lives, women tethered themselves to husbands and babies and “lost” themselves in the …
Last week, after an especially long day and an “epic” tantrum from her 3-year-old, Sarah Buckley Friedberg, a Massachusetts mother of three, posted on Facebook a mock ‘to-do list‘ that society expects of mothers today. The ending was inspired: “I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to lean OUT. Thanks for coming to my …
This article was originally published at Washington Examiner. A new finding at Pew Research Center claims that gender equality—worldwide, although a distinction must be made between its goals in the West and its goals in undeveloped nations—has risen exponentially at the same time family ties have weakened considerably. And here’s the frustrating part: While “roughly half or more” …
The following post is the third in a series of posts on modern American dating and young people’s inability to form lasting attachments that potentially lead to marriage. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I addressed the modern generation’s inability to find and sustain successful long-term relationships—today, over half of 18-34 year …
I recently began a new series I’m doing called ‘Ask Suzanne,’ where I take questions and post them on my new You Tube page. For my first installment, I answered a mom’s question about what to tell her sons about navigating a culture steeped in female entitlement. Apparently her son had begun dating a girl who’s …
The following post is the second in a series of posts on modern American dating and young people’s inability to form lasting attachments that potentially lead to marriage. In Part 1 of this three-part series, I wrote that having a successful long-term relationship is the most pressing issue of our time. Generation Z has no …
A similar version of this article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. If you’re in a traditional(ish) marriage—that is, if you’re part of the majority of married women in America who are either not employed at all or who are employed part-time—you’ve hit the jackpot. Countless modern marriages are struggling today or falling apart …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. What if all you need to be successfully married is a change of attitude? Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. You’d be surprised what a simple shift in thinking can do. Your attitude is the single most important determinant of your success in life. …
Lynn, 38, was unhappy in her marriage. Her husband was a good man and a great father, and he made a good living. But Lynn was bored. She wanted the excitement of something new, and she wanted to be married to a wealthier man. After several affairs, Lynn finally found what she was looking for …
The year 2019 has begun with a bang. A gender bang, you might say. As if the APA’s new guidelines that deem masculinity “harmful” wasn’t bad enough, Gillette subsequently released a patronizing ad that targets masculinity as well. Even worse, it will air during the Super Bowl. I could wax poetic about the egregious cultural …
This article was first published at the Washington Examiner. As many of you know, I‘m finishing up a manuscript for a new book that helps women find Mr. Right and keep him by embracing sexual inequality, aka the innate differences between women and men. So-called gender equality presumes the sexes are interchangeable when they are not. …
Note: The following article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Just because something’s not supposed to be said doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It just means you’re not supposed to say it. In a segment Wednesday about men in decline and what it means for the country, Tucker Carlson pointed out “study after study has …
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