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What married couples need to know to keep the love alive.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes decades of time together strewn with a minefield of potential relationship wreckers. It's a wonder that anyone ends up walking off into the sunset, hand-in-wrinkled-hand, with a silver-haired mate. What do those geriatric lovebirds know that you don't?
Well, the truth is that even in so-called happy marriages, both partners probably fantasize some of the time—or even much of the time—about throwing in the towel. A new Woman's Day and AOL Living poll found that a shocking 72 percent of women surveyed have considered leaving their husbands at some point. But despite the … Read More
And their eight kids will have something else to tell their eight therapists.
Jon and Kate Gosselin plan to spend Christmas together with their eight kids, three ex-lovers, two dogs, one marriage rent asunder, and a partridge in a pear tree, according to Us Weekly. (Not a Patridge. She's on a different show.) "Christmas Eve and Christmas day are joint-shared custody days, which means we're both in the house," he said. "So we'll be there." Unlike last year, the Gosselin Christmas won't be filmed for TLC, but this year will have the sideshow of both parents trying not to rip each other's throats out. Ah, just like when … Read More
The supermodel explains why she and her musician husband aren't looking to add to the brood.
Supermodel-turned-TV star Heidi Klum doubts she will have another child with husband Seal -- because they are already so busy raising their four children. The German stunner gave birth to Lou Samuel on Friday morning, and Klum admits the latest little addition to their family will most likely be their last.
She tells People.com, "I think that it's a wonderful experience to be pregnant, definitely, but you have to look at what you can do, and four children is a lot! It's a big family."
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Jon says Kate won't let him see the twins on their birthday, calls waaaaahmbulance.
Jon Gosselin, after abandoning his family for a series of douchey parties on yachts and in Vegas, is now saying his estranged wife, Kate, is keeping him from seeing twins Mady and Cara on their birthday, today. "She's trying to prevent me from seeing my kids on their birthday because she doesn't want to see me," Jon moaned to Entertainment Tonight Wednesday.
Kate and Jon are currently taking turns spending time at the family's Pennsylvania home with their eight kids, but when Kate e-mailed Jon to suggest that they split the girls' birthday so their daughters could … Read More
Whitney, Susan Boyle, Jen: these female celebs are happy without romance. Go girls!
As Whitney Houston proved this week in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, not all women have to be taken to live their happy best. When you have this much love from your fans, sometimes we wonder, who actually needs romance?!
Whitney Houston Her comeback stuns us all, as did her candid revelations to Oprah. She said Bobby Brown was emotionally abusive and that she allowed their marriage to hold back her best work. After seven years behind closed doors, Whitney's old-school-meets-what's-cool new album I Look to You is number one on the charts this week—and our fave … Read More
Tips to help your children cope with an oncoming divorce.
How can you minimize the anxiety and fear your children will experience from your divorce? Watch your words! As a parenting educator having worked with so many well-meaning, loving parents for so many years, I believe it's a divorced parent's single biggest responsibility.
No matter how much anger and disdain you may feel toward each other as a couple, kids can't divorce their parents. And while you probably know that it's never good to badmouth your ex in front of your child, here's something you may not realize: When you direct anything negative toward your former spouse—including snide … Read More
Grey's Anatomy's Izzie is getting a baby, but will her new marriage survive?
Katherine Heigl and her husband of eighteen months, Josh Kelley, are adopting a baby girl from Korea, the actress announced Thursday. In a segment filmed for Ellen Degeneres's show, set to air Friday, Katherine said, "I wanted to tell everybody so you don't think I stole a Korean baby."
The ten-month-old girl will be named Naleigh, a combination of Katherine's mother's and sister's names. "She was actually born the day before me in November, which I thought was really serendipitous and just kind of like a sign," Katherine told Ellen. "I realized just recently that I basically forfeited … Read More
Dean Sheremet and Brandi Glanville bonding over their spouses' affair, says Us.
More evidence that LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are making a serious mistake with their affair and divorces—their current spouses appear to be incredibly caring people.
Us Magazine is reporting that LeAnn's husband and Eddie's wife are propping each other up as the unfaithful pair march proudly forward with their relationship (dates all over L.A. and a vacation to Cabo this past weekend that caused Eddie to miss his sons' first day of school to celebrate LeAnn's 27th birthday on August 28). YourTango: The Only Way To Know A Relationship Is Over
Just … Read More
Levi Johnston tells Vanity Fair that Sarah Palin wanted to adopt her daughter's baby.
Levi Johnston is burning the last of his bridges with the Palin camp.
In an interview with Vanity Fair (on stands September 8), Johnston spills the beans on Sarah Palin's worry that her teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy would hurt her campaign for Vice President. Huffington Post via Vanity Fair quotes Johnston with the following:
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I … Read More
John Travolta grieving son Jett in seclusion while wife Kelly Preston throws herself into work.
Since their wedding in 1991, John Travolta and Kelly Preston have long been seen as one of the few Hollywood couples who stay together in good times and in bad.
But in times that are really bad, Celebitchy reports via Star magazine that the pair is struggling. Since the death of their 16-year-old son Jett on January 2 of this year the pair have been said to be coping very differently with their mourning. YourTango: How To Help A Partner Grieve
John is said to be resting in seclusion at their Florida estate—in … Read More