The feudal system should remain as dead as the dinosaurs, but in China it’s coming back with a vengeance. To curb a steadily increasing divorce rate and stop women from marrying for money, the Chinese Supreme Court has recently stipulated that “property bought before marriage, either outright or on mortgage, reverted to the buyer on ...
When it comes to love, there are various reasons for wanting to throw in the towel. Although we see sensational celebrity breakups splashed all over gossip magazines and it seems like we all have a friend who has been cheated on, the UK’s 2011 matrimonial survey tells us that infidelity is not the number one ...
If you’re not having sex with your partner, you may not be fulfilling your marital obligations. Love and marriage are much more than sex, but a recent court decision proves that sex is significant. The story goes something like this: an unnamed Frenchwoman marries a Frenchman (“named only as Jean-Louis B”), he doesn’t hold up ...
A story of one woman’s life and struggle to find any man willing to treat her as an equal is one of the most unassumingly sexist stories I have ever heard. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston recounts the life and struggle to find marital and overall happiness of protagonist Janie Crawford. ...
Divorce lawyers see a huge spike in clients once the calendar flips to September. Why the surge of unhappy couples? All of us who associate September with starting school again can understand the phenomenon. It may not be the beginning of the new year (January also sees a huge jump in divorce numbers), but September ...
I am a housewife. I don’t care. Fuck June Cleaver. Fuck Jane Jetson. Fuck Better Homes and Gardens. You should see my vacuum. It’s fucking beautiful. It is a 12-amp bagless self-propelled Hoover fucking Windtunnel with a powered hand tool and a HEPA filter. When I first got it, I took it out of the ...
Dear Madame X, My husband earns a lot of money and supports me and my children really comfortably. He has always been very loving and supportive of our family. However, he has begun to hint that he should be able to sleep with other women, since he is providing so well for us. I think ...
If there is one cardinal sin of dating it would probably have to be kissing and telling. However, Hugh Hefner’s ex-fiance doesn’t seem to care. On a Tuesday edition of Howard Stern’s show, Crystal Harris has removed the shroud of mystery surrounding “the Hef” and given us insight into what really happens in the Playboy ...
Every women over the age of 30 knows the pressure to be married.”Is he the one?” your mom will ask after the first date, hoping that she’ll get to plan her dream wedding on your big day. Gay couples have mostly been spared this trauma, but mothers who thought they would never see their child ...
I love Augusten Burroughs and everything he’s ever written, so it pains me to say the women in his only novel represent all the worst brands of stale female stereotypes. To be fair, Sellevision was Burroughs’ first published work, his first attempt at picking up a pen or opening a MacBook after a stint in ...
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...
