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Divorce After 50: A Guest Post by Alan Brady
When I received an inquiry from someone named Alan Brady, about being a guest poster on my blog, I immediately flashed back to the character of Alan Brady on the Dick Van Dyke Show. That Alan Brady was pompous, had a lot of hairpieces and made a lot of bad decisions. He was a guy […]
The Good Wife Guide
December 16, 2012
The Ladies’ Homemaker Monthly , a popular journal that began about 100 years ago, provided women with rules to live by. Their motto was “You can judge a good woman by how many well-dressed children she has and the contentment of her husband.” The Good Wife Guide: 19 Rules for Keeping A Happy Husband is […]
The Link Between Physical Attractiveness and Relationship Success
April 15, 2012
Let us forget, for the time being, that the earth has left its current orbit and has entered a dimension that is so bizarre as to be comprehensible only by people directed to try for the presidential nomination by God. Instead, let’s focus on a HuffPost report on a study by Harris Interactive on the […]
What does your husband really think of your wobbly bits?
November 22, 2011
It’s taken over 200 years, but the Brits have finally figured out a way to ruin our Thanksgiving festivities. The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK has come out with an article titled, “What does your husband REALLY think of your wobbly bits?” For those of you who are asking, “How come the English people […]
The Secret Lives of Wives
October 7, 2011
Iris Krasnow’s new book, “The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What It Really Takes To Stay Married,” has hit the stands. And, unlike this writer, the stands are sitting down to read it. Krasnow estimates that about 70% of married women have considered leaving their spouses once a month, if not every six months.” […]
Married to Mr Transportation
April 26, 2011
Now Husband Dan is thoughtful, physically affectionate, and never ends a phone call without saying “I love you.” For the last week, we have been living about 20 minutes away from each other and communicating mostly via phone. I have been on Anna Maria Island, helping Joyce. Dan has been in our trailer mobile home […]
What 5 Inches Really Means
January 28, 2011
In case any of you have been living behind my washer and dryer with an assortment of my missing socks and underwear, you might not know that DC just had a five inch snowfall on Wednesday. Traffic police in the area were immediately diverted from directing traffic to riding around in big official-looking trucks. This […]
The Myth of Older Men Wanting Younger Women
January 7, 2011
Ooooh, provocative blog title. I can hear the heavy breathing of people lining up on either side of this debate that is so incendiary it will make you forget about bedbugs and J-Woww’s nude photo scandal. So here goes: I have an ongoing disagreement with my friend Jean. She insists that all men over age […]
Finding My Future in A Trashcan
January 1, 2011
One of the great ah-ha moments of my life began with the sight of small pieces of a photo in the trash can in the driveway of my marital residence. At first, what I was looking at made no sense to me. I recognized the photo, one taken by my husband, of me on a […]
Rallying to Restore Marital Sanity
November 2, 2010
Our friend Judy was coming with us to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity. She was driving from New Jersey to our house on Friday evening. The phone rang. I picked it up at that exact same second that my Now Husband Dan came rushing into the room, yelling “There is something wrong with […]
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