Want a long, stable marriage? The trick is to marry an optometrist, agree to have two male children and SMILE! Take pains to avoid any kind of personal problem or health issue. And ladies, avoid the military at all costs. Anneli Rufus has compiled a list of scientific studies that predict divorce. It’s a fascinating ...
If a middle-aged woman lives with her boyfriend and has no children is she still fit to run the country? With Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, being 48-years-old, childless, and living with her divorced dad boyfriend of 4 years, that is a question that is heating up in Australia.
It begins with an “I do,” lovingly staring into each other’s eyes. But when it ends, mountains of paperwork must be sifted through and signed off on. At best the couple avoids each other, but at worst they hurl invectives down telephone lines and internet cables. But Japan has a better idea — the divorce ...
He said: “I don’t love you any more. I’m not sure I ever did. I’m moving out. The kids will understand. They’ll want me to be happy.” She replied: “I don’t buy it.” And this is how Laura Munson saved her marriage. She swears its a happy one, but I don’t know if I buy it.
Are you sick of your husband and want a divorce? Do you think your daughter is marrying the wrong man? Well if you are lucky enough to live in Japan you can hire a “splitter-upper” to do the deed for you.
Research in Australia has shown that “non-residential parents”, that is, mostly the divorced dads, don’t have enough involvement with their kids’ schools. They recommend teachers do more to involve dads. This is good in theory, but seriously, whose fault is this? If the dads want more involvement it’s up to them to ask for it.
Despite the best efforts of international navies, piracy remains a flourishing industry in otherwise destitute Somalia, to the point of the establishment of a stock exchange for locals to support aspiring hijackers. How does a woman get ahead in this traditionally male career?
Indian brides are being abandoned by their British husbands on a regular basis. These men get thousands of pounds for dowry and never see their wives again despite promising to get them a visa for the UK. Yet this is perpetuated by Indian women desperate for British citizenship and flocking to British Indian tourists in the hopes ...
Instead of turning their engagement rings into drop pendant necklaces, many women are burying their past by buying coffins for their wedding rings. The little boxes come with customized plaques, a little RIP for the relationship gone sour. They include: Bury the past and move on to a new tomorrow Gone and Forgotten I Do… ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
