February 10, 2012
On dates I still love a little bit of chivalry — but it goes too far when the restaurant servers decide that my male dining partner should get the bill. The assumption that the man should pay in the restaurant is archaic. The waiters don’t know what our relationship is and any assumption is just ...
August 31, 2010
Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
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August 18, 2010
Another survey has come out looking and who cheats and why and found that men whose partners make significantly more money than them are most likely to cheat. But let’s not forget that most men are faithful. The Effect of Relative Income Disparity on Infidelity for Men and Women study found: men with no income ...