ESSAYS & ARTICLES

How Do You Categorize a Love Story?

It’s always strange when you finish a book, to see how it fits into the categories offered by publishers.  My three nonfiction books were, one by one, …

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The Perfect Man

Big news in the Daily Mail Reporter: In a study of 2,000 British women, the search for Mr. Perfect seems to be a complete bust. …

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Achievement

That women are now the majority of the workforce is not a terrible thing. So how come, with every new achievement of women, there is a corresponding …

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Fun

For a survey I was conducting some years ago in a woman’s magazine, I asked readers:What do you think the primary purpose of marriage is? …

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Hindsight

One of my favorite authors is the late Carolyn Heilbrun, whose wisdom about women still moves me when I pick up, as I often do, …

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Prenups

A woman who appeared on my cable show not long ago revealed, when I announced that fifty percent of all American women will live with …

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Ambivalence

A group of young men were complaining to me the other night about their live-in girlfriends. “In three months, my fiancée has been home nine …

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The End of Marriage? No Way.

Marriage was once immutable, like forests and wild animals and clean air.  It was as inevitable and reliable as the tides. But it isn’t inevitable …

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Love, Lives and Scare Tactics

A very long piece in The Atlantic this month has pointed out several things we’ve been talking about in my books and blogs for over …

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Fear of Ending It? Get over it!

I’d rather talk about weightier issues than relationship etiquette, but I just heard for the second time this week about another person who ended a …

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