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When My Marriage Ended, So Did Many Of My Friendships
By Laurel HermansonMay 14, 2013
Do rough times show you who your real friends are? Laurel Hermanson says it's not that simple. I sometimes think my daughter’s third birthday party was the best day of her life. She wanted a pirate theme, so we decorated the backyard and ordered a custom cake in the shape of a parrot. Since it was July, I bought an inflatable pool with a slide and a fountain. She was surrounded by kids a...Posted in Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives | (0) Comments »
What I Learned About Friendship After Going Through A Divorce
By James Bernard FrostMay 07, 2013
Sometimes, the best way to be a friend is just to listen. There is a picture taken of all of us in the backyard of my house the summer before it happened: my wife and our two kids; Lilith, her husband, and her little scientist; Monique, her husband, and her future goth; and Ophelia, and her two towheads. In the picture, my son has his fists full of chocolate birthday cake, my daughter has a ga...Posted in Husbands, Manhood, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives | (0) Comments »
My Husband And I Sleep In Separate Beds
By Jennifer AdamsApril 22, 2013
I’m going to lay my cards on the table straight away. My husband and I sleep in separate rooms and have done so since he moved into my house eight years ago. If I was going to describe our ability to share a bed in contemporary parlance, I would have to say we are an "epic fail." When Fraser moved into my house, we had only been seeing each other for five months. But the lease on his ap...Posted in Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives | (0) Comments »
How I Came To Accept My Partner's Ex-Wife
By Arielle SilverMarch 18, 2013
Loving someone means accepting the parts of their past that have led them to you. A few years ago, when my younger stepdaughter Esme was around 5, we were in the midst of the usual pre-holiday cookie cutters excitement when she announced to her dad and me that all she wanted for Christmas was a dry erase white board. Her sister requested all manner of things, from a sewing machine to a BB gun ...Posted in Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives | (0) Comments »
Why We Created A New Last Name As A Married Couple
By Abby PhoenixMarch 14, 2013
I’m Abby, and my husband is Evan. We were both raised by liberal, progressive (but not activist) families with mothers and fathers who both worked full-time. While I don’t think either of us knew the word “feminist” as children, I can guarantee that we both grew up thinking of equal rights between men and women as a given societal ideal, not a particularly radical idea. ...Posted in Family, Gender Roles, Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Wives | (0) Comments »
For The Sake Of Your Relationship, Take A Vacation Together
By Lynn BeisnerMarch 13, 2013
Lynn Beisner shares the marriage maintenance formula prescribed to her by a therapist, which includes fun, laughter, and the occasional vacation. This week, my husband Pete and I are on vacation. That might not seem like a radical thing to you, but for me it is an act of cultural disobedience. For starters, this is not a good time. Pete is one of the many Americans who has seen their secure j...Posted in Husbands, Lynn, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives | (0) Comments »
I Am Not A Prostitute Because My Husband Supports Me Financially
By Lynn BeisnerJanuary 09, 2013
Lynn Beisner calls out author Elizabeth Wurtzel who recently proclaimed that all women who are financially supported by men are prostitutes. This week I read a wonderful article about our generation’s search for meaning by fellow Role/Reboot contributor Kerry Cohen. It spoke to me so deeply that I went out of my way to read the article that had inspired Cohen: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s r...Posted in Culture and Politics, Feminism, Gender Roles, Husbands, Lynn, Marriage, nfti-home, Wives, Womanhood, Working Mothers | (0) Comments »
I Hate Doing His Laundry...Or Do I?
By Kelly SiegelJanuary 07, 2013
Soon-to-be-wed Kelly Siegel explores whether she despises certain household chores because she genuinely dislikes them, or if it's because they're what a woman is "supposed to" do. On New Year’s Day I found myself crying on the sofa while my fiancé looked on, concerned and unsure how exactly to console me. We had just taken down our completely dead Christmas tree, and as he dutifu...Posted in Gender Roles, Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
I Couldn't Wait For My Wife To Go Back To Work
By Keith MichaelsNovember 26, 2012
Losing a job is hard on any family—but does it matter more whose job was lost? I’ve been waiting for today for four years. Today I woke up and I knew my wife, Nicole, would be getting ready for work, and I knew she’d be leaving. In late 2008, I had an opportunity to travel to Kenya for a wedding. I went. Nicole had expressed concern about losing her job, but despite the cost...Posted in Gender Roles, Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Wives, Working Mothers, Workplace | (0) Comments »
My Multi-Family Thanksgiving Tradition Actually Works
By Carrie NelsonNovember 21, 2012
Who says in-laws can't get along? When my husband, Anders, proposed to me in May 2008, we didn’t have much time to celebrate on our own. There was too much else to do; after all, our undergraduate commencement ceremony was only five days later. We also knew that at some point in the middle of all of the commotion associated with getting engaged and graduating from college, we had to prep...Posted in Family, Husbands, Marriage, nfti-home, Parents, Wives | (0) Comments »
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