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We think some couples want to upgrade marriages like they do iPhones.
Ross Douthat wrote an interesting Op-Ed piece in the The New York Times titled "The Way We Love Now" which analyzes the state of love, marriage and romantic contentment in 2009. Douthat wonders if we as a society have morphed into a culture of bed-hopping, cheating hearts and sexless, impossibly unsatisfied curmudgeons. Cheating Myths Debunked
Oh, lucky us! Both sound so appetizing!
These two really attractive and glamorous options are epitomized, he says, by the philandering Jon Gosselin, Mark Sanford, and Mel Gibson, versus a more stable (albeit bored) nuclear family of stifled everyday wives … Read More
10 women from 10 different cities tell how they met their last boyfriends.
We here at YourTango see plenty of reasons to love online dating. There's the chance to meet new people outside your own social circles (who you never have to run into again at a friend's dinner party if you don't want to) and the sheer volume of other singles looking for exactly the same thing as you (however unique that thing may be), not to mention the incredibly high success rates (if you consider marriage a sign of success). According to one study conducted by consumer research group Which, 1 in 5 people who've used online dating … Read More
Seeking Successful Marriages, Couples Take Marriage Lessons
Singapore’s got its eye on the prize: In an effort to raise a low birth rate, the government has introduced a course entitled, “Understanding Relationships: Love and Sexuality.” The class is taught by the Social Development Agency (Singapore’s match-making agency) and covers topics such as love song analysis, speed dating, and online chatting.
Where do we enroll? We can think of a few exBFs that could learn a thing or two…
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How do you learn to be a better wife? A class, of course.
Shortly after getting married, I bought dozens of books on how to be a good wife. Marriage was a mystery to me, and I wanted to make sure we got off to a good start. One book in particular, Helen Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood, a 1973 bestseller, jumped out at me. Not only was the author still alive, but she offered online, interactive classes, taught by her trainees.
Part of me was scared to sign up and skeptical that her approach would work for me. It seemed designed for women living like 1950s housewives, where the husband was the boss and … Read More
