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Is Tom's baby lust damaging their marriage?
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are at odds over whether to add to their family, and the strain of disagreement is taking its toll on the marriage. Star's completely bananas cover story today reports that Tom is leaning on Katie to get pregnant again, since he's pushing 50 and is madly jealous of David and Victoria Beckham's and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's robust broods, and that the pressure is getting to Katie, who's feeling guilty that she's depriving three-year-old Suri of siblings.
"Katie feels Tom is more wound up about this than he's ever been … Read More
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze welcome Charlotte Grace. More details here!
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr. kept their pregnancy quiet until last April, four months into the expectancy.
Somehow they've done it again. Sarah gave birth to Charlotte Grace Prinze over the weekend, and the Prinzes managed to keep the news hush until three days after her birth. Sarah's rep said in a statement that they "welcomed their daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze on Saturday, Sept. 19." The rep said that mom, dad and baby were great and "The family is over the moon."
According to MTV, Sarah and Freddie met in 1997 filming I Know What … Read More
Whose relationship is awesome, and whose is headed for a crash and burn?
We spend a lot of time thinking about celebrities' dating, canoodling, and marriage partners. It's kind of an occupational hazard. Eventually you see patterns forming, and while of course we can’t know what's actually going on in the private lives of our favorite entertainers and media fixtures, that doesn't stop us from admiring and trying to emulate them at times, whether it's a fantastic outfit or what looks like an effortlessly happy, mutually supportive relationship. And then there are the disasters, the twosomes we wish would break up and put each other, and us, out of their misery. Read on … Read More
Does not having a child make you any less of a woman? No, and here's why.
I am a woman. I have all the biological requirements to have a child. Yet, I do not have the instincts or rational desire to do so. Does that make me less of a woman to not want to have a child either by using my body, my eggs, or my money to adopt?
My parents are the only people who, when I said I didn't want to have kids, responded with, "Sounds like a good idea." They married because I was on the way and … Read More
The perils of telling his family about your mental health status.
I could have just said "I don't know" or deflected the question. I didn't have to say anything. But when my boyfriend's parents asked me over a family dinner the other night what I might want write a book about, I answered honestly: my struggles with depression.
Surprised, I think, neither parent said anything in response, which made me feel nervously awkward. But then another relative chimed in with her own depression story. She said when she started taking anti-depressants, she would sleep all day, so I shared that Lexapro used to make me conk out, too. Then the relative … Read More
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are still a thing, but here's why she won't meet his family.
By all accounts we've gotten from the ComicCon crowd, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart obviously are still hot for each other. They've spent the summer apart but reunited last week in San Diego...and created quite a stir among the geeks with the evident electricity between them. The Twilight Cast In Love At Comic-Con
And while Kristen shrugged off an audience member's question about whether the two are an item, according to Osoblog, the latest rumors suggest that Kristen is about to meet Robert's parents. While it may seem the natural next step among us R-Pattz tongue-waggers, the report … Read More
An adult woman moves in with her parents—and they move in on her love life.
I couldn't figure out who was checking my email. My junk mail was untouched, but emails from friends, guys or financial institutions were no longer in bold, as if to say, "Someone's had their nose in your business but wasn't savvy enough to mark Unread."
I had recently moved back home, and apparently Mom had made a habit of peeking around my office (okay, my brother's old bedroom) before I woke up every day. At 14 I might've accepted my mom's obsession with my online activity (okay, probably not) but at age 28, after a decade of living on my own, … Read More
This week YourTango was all about you, even if you missed it.
Look at that pretty little face! Yes, we're talking to you!
That's because this week YourTango was all about you. From our advice on why technological compatibility is important to your blogs on sex education and your questions seeking advice, there was only one thing on our minds this week: You!
But, just in case you were too busy developing a narcissistic complex that would put Narcissus to shame, here's this week's best.
Community Blog: Teaching Our Kids About Sex
BookMama tells us about her son's sex education and wonders how to broach the subject.
Transformers 2 star dishes about his parent's sex life and the end of his three year relationship.
Shia LaBeouf is certainly not afraid to talk about sex and his unconventional upbringing. The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star previously discussed losing his virginity, not being well-endowed, and finding his mom to be the ideal woman. (Read: Shia LaBeouf Isn't "Extremely Well-Endowed") Now the star is opening up about seeing his parents do the nasty and the end of his three-year relationship with ex-girlfriend China Brezner.
"I come from hippies," Shia told Parade in an interview. "My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked—just weird hippie stuff, … Read More
Kids exposed to parental violence nearly five times more likely to be violent at home as adults.
Children whose parents treat each other violently are more likely to have mental difficulties as adults finds a study from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France, reports Science Daily.
When researchers carried out in-person interviews with more than 3,000 adults they measured intimate partner violence, violence against children, lifetime suicide attempts and current level of depression.
Participants were also surveyed about any parental separation, divorce and death as well as alcoholism, financial stress and abuse they might have experienced during childhood.
After making adjustments for family and social stress factors, researchers found that adults who were exposed … Read More
