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“So, Fred, When You Gonna Make Me A Grandma?”
So now young gay couples are feeling the heat from their parents: One friend of mine, a man who has been a couple with another …
Surprise! Websites for The Unfaithful!
Years ago it was thought that husbands had affairs and wives did not. Really. I was thrown off several radio shows for insisting that the …
Honesty about Infidelity? Not on Your Life!
Last week, a Portland, Oregan documentarist interviewed me about my feelings about open marriage. He’s making a documentary about marriage, and he wants to share …
One Reason Gay Marriage is Great for Straight Marriage
The construct of the Wife, that traditional icon of virtue, has depressed many a woman and killed many a traditional marriage. Luckily for gay men and women, they won’t face this horrible cultural construct. And I say Amen to that!
“Honey, I want some…SPACE!”
More evidence that women’s attitudes toward marriage have changed dramatically: The Pew Research Center, which analyzes census data, confirms what I’ve been hearing from women: …
Weiner’s Reasons? Schwarzenegger’s Apology? Do We Care?
I mean, what is there left to say but “Whatever”? That’s now the word of choice used by the young when, yet again, some famous, …
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Coming Up Next!: The Pretend Marriage
My favorite new fact about marriage is not the Census Bureau’s 2010 report that four in ten Americans feel that marriage is becoming obsolete. (In my …
Time Out
A quick note to say I’ll be away for two weeks and am abandoning ship for that time….but will be back in full force when …