breadwinner
A recipe to cure your relationship blues.
You felt like a lucky woman when your husband offered to stay home while you went out and earned the dough, until you walked in on him chatting online with other moms as your kids are watching cartoons. Don't get mad, make quiche, says author of Eat Your Feelings: Recipes for Self-Loathing, Heather Whaley. According to her, there's nothing like stuffing your face, crying, and then looking in the mirror and saying that it's not your fault—even if it is, technically, your fault. When you've come home to find your unemployed boyfriend playing video games instead of vacuuming, try … Read More
Are you a nightmare date? Benefits of being poorly endowed. An orgasm caught on MRI.
It's a hump day. Here is the best stuff the interwebs had to offer about love, relationships and a little bit of sex this week.
My homegirls, Em & Lo (EmAndLo.com), have a crazy video taken from a MRI machine. Essentially, it shows a couple having intercourse and the woman achieving an orgasm. I suppose I owe someone a buck, the female orgasm does exist... Not safe for work, it being a MRI of two people making whoopie and all.
Yoibles. Over at Asylum, a fellow called Alan Weider pimps his book The Year Of The C**k with … Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports that men just love being the breadwinner. Duh.
A man allowing his lady to pay for dinner? Cute. A man living with the fact his lady makes more money? Eh, slightly emasculating. Warning: may cause a brief sensation of boxer brief twisting. Career And Family: Can We Really Have Both?
Or so says The Wall Street Journal. Or rather, the study "The Impact of Relative Earnings Among Dual-Earner Couples on Career Satisfaction and Family Satisfaction" a research experiment conducted between 485 middle-class married couples in New York State between 1999 and 2002.
Within each couple, the man and woman's income was analyzed and broken down into … Read More
What's life like for a female breadwinner?
When you hear the term "breadwinner," you're likely to think of a dude. But the New York Times' Modern Love essay this week is penned by a former-female-breadwinner, who later scrapped breadwinning entirely for a more egalitarian set-up.
Karen Karbo reveled in a whirlwind romance with a Frenchman around whom she never opened her purse once. But then he showed up at her apartment, caught her 'unaware' in unattractive sweatpants, and informed her that he expected her to look pretty for him all the time. Mais non! Quite rightly, she dumped Monsier Jerkface.
In successive relationships, Karbo found herself … Read More
A recent survey shows 88 percent of men OK with wife earning more.
Last week, we reported that men are increasingly sharing household chores with women.
In another sign of our ever-evolving times, nearly ninety percent of 74,000 men surveyed reported that they would not mind if their wife earned more than they did, according to MSNBC and Elle magazine.
Of course, being a working woman, wife and mother requires sacrifice, such as living with dust bunnies under the bed or returning to work soon after having a baby.
And while men report feeling comfortable with a bread-winning woman, communication is key to ensuring balanced emotions towards Read More
Surviving on a single income. Couples take turns at earning and learning.
You've got to hand it to Bill and Hillary Clinton: Despite all their bad behavior, they do know how to take turns. When Bill headed off to Washington for his first term as president, Hillary left her law practice and followed. When their time at the White House was up and Hillary ran for Senate, Bill embraced his role as spouse. And a fine political husband he has been, showing up for fundraisers, waving and smiling, and praising his gal at every opportunity.
Taking turns is a skill we learn early on at the playground but … Read More