This article originally appeared on KristinMaschka.com. Republished here with permission. Equal Pay Day and Tax Day both fall on April 17th this year due to a simple calendar coincidence. But the connection between the two and the financial impact for women and especially mothers is no coincidence. April 17, 2012 is the day that symbolizes […]
This was originally published in two parts at ShrinkTalk.net. Here’s part 1, and here’s part 2. Republished here with permission. They say that you never forget your first love. And with the exception of yours truly, who would rather stick his tongue in a bear trap than even think about his high school girlfriend, many […]
Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn’t mean you should. Lyla Cicero discusses the group mentality to getting married. What’s the best way to predict if a couple will get married? Find out how many of their friends have! In many social groups, once one or two friends marry the rest will drop […]
This originally appeared in slightly different form at ShrinkTalk.net. Republished here with permission. When you’re a practicing therapist, you often have clients who grapple with infidelity in their relationships. If the client is the person who cheated, your job is to help him/her to understand the reasons behind the transgression and, if appropriate, how not […]
Despite the betrayal and public humiliation, some political wives, such as Silda Spitzer, remain with their philandering husbands long after the scandal. But what makes them stay? Today marks four years since the former first couple of New York faced a barrage of cameras when Governor Spitzer resigned from office, felled by his status as […]
Rachel Muir is happily married…to a man who works nights. So once her 9-5 job ends, she starts her second shift caring for their young twins as a single parent. I feel like I’m part of a new demographic—I’m happily married but still, most nights I single parent. Why? My husband works nights, while I […]
This post originally appeared in somewhat different form at PerverseCowgirl. Republished here with permission. My boyfriend Minx and I recently attended his friend’s wedding. Before I got married, I’d sit through weddings twitching with boredom and making sarcastic comments under my breath (NB: I was young and incredibly cynical). After I got married, and against all […]
This was originally published on Rachel Rabbit White’s blog. Republished here with permission. Why isn’t divorce a good thing? When news of any divorce spreads, it is with a certain sadness (even in celebrity marriages, RIP Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon) or sometimes it is with a little smugness (haha, Kim Kardashian). But considering the high […]
From personal experience, Kate McGuinness shares advice—and warnings—with a friend who recently became a step mother. Recently, I attended the wedding of a friend who was marrying a man with two children from a prior marriage. Like one-third of all marriages in the United States today, this one would form a stepfamily. Before my friend […]
What if I don’t get any cards? It’s been nearly 35 years since I was last in elementary school, but I can still remember the anxiety that accompanied the February 14ths of my childhood. Though the practice has ended in many American schools, when I was growing up students were expected to give a Valentine’s […]
This week marks the 20-year anniversary of my mother’s remission from breast cancer. Technically, it’s the date of her first mastectomy, and we are celebrating her life, and ours with her, as a survivor. “We” means my first family, or family of origin: my two sisters and me; a smattering of our own partners and […]
This originally appeared on NYCDadsGroup.com. Republished here with permission. Typically in my blog posts, I focus on the outlier status of being a stay-at-home father: We’re different; we’re outside the norm; other parents don’t trust us to host sleepovers alone; is there a correlation with stay-at-home dads and low testosterone; what is it like to […]
