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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 »
A Wife's Tale: How I Stopped The Housework Habit And Started Living
By Susan McLeod-HarrisonApril 18, 2013
When will people stop looking to women as "keepers of the hearth"? I will start this tale with a confession: I have never liked housework. My husband would rather read or write than dust, too, but for some reason that isn’t confession material. I started my marriage with a commitment to fairness. I would do no more housework than he did. We went weeks without cleaning the bathroom, or mo...Posted in Gender Roles, Life, Mothers, nfti-home, Wives, Womanhood | (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 »
Why Most Women Have Higher Standards For Cleanliness Than Men
By Lynn BeisnerFebruary 20, 2013
Many women still see the cleanliness of their home as a direct reflection of them personally. This year for Christmas I was given a thoughtful and generous gift by one of my best friends: a gift certificate for a full house cleaning by a professional maid service. I have rarely received a gift that filled me with as many conflicting emotions or caused me to interrogate my own thinking quite so...Posted in Feminism, Gender Roles, Life, Lynn, Mothers, nfti-home, Wives, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
Let's Give Engagement Rings New Meaning
By Emilie LittlehalesFebruary 17, 2013
Emilie Littlehales says the only way to combat the sexist tradition behind engagement rings is to strip them of their original meaning. The other day I had this conversation: "So...you're engaged?" "Yep." The question came out of nowhere, and I couldn't help but wonder where this person—a co-worker—had gotten this information to begin with. For better or worse, I've never been on...Posted in Culture and Politics, Feminism, Marriage, nfti-home, 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 »
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