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When your partner needs your help, here's what you should do.
One of the best things about being married is that you have someone to lean on when the going gets tough. But even in new relationships, knowing that someone cares about you is helpful when you're having a hard time. When your partner is stressed, consider proactively offering support, instead of waiting for him to come to you. Here are six situations when your partner needs a little extra loving. 101 Ways To Improve Your Relationship Right Now
When they have an important day at work. Even if he doesn't look like he's stressed, his big day at work … Read More
Who's in your village, and are you making the most of what they have to offer you?
As we've said before: it doesn't just take a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to raise a couple. Our relationships don't exist in vacuums, they can be strengthened or challenged based on the friends, family and advisers we keep.
Who's in your village? Are you making the most of what they have to offer? Or are you forgetting one of the best resources your relationship has? Below, some tips on how to help your village help you.
1. Have separate friends. Sometimes, when you're in love (or suffering from the effects of inertia), it's easy to forget that anyone … Read More
How to live with the recently laid-off without going crazy.
The economy is supposedly in recovery, but layoffs are still prominent in virtually every industry. Many more people than usual can relate to a phenomenon usually restricted to the over-60 set: living with an unemployed spouse.
While being laid off and entering into retirement are far from the same, they both often leave one half of a couple with extra time on their hands, and plenty of pent-up energy that their significant other, coming home after a long day at work, can't handle.Read: 4 Reasons To Date The Unemployed
They argue in public. He calls her names. What does my friend see in her husband?
Recently, one of our readers shared a story about how on a vacation with a group of friends, she witnessed her girlfriend's husband being downright nasty to her: "We were all hanging out and she said that she wanted to go charge her phone and he got so angry at her. 'Forget your phone. You don't need to charge it now.' 'No, I want to go charge it.' He grabbed her phone. 'Enough with the phone,' he said and sort of shoved her. We were all stunned. How could a smart, sweet, successful woman be with such a jerk? At … Read More
Nas ordered to shell out the money to Kelis and baby by a Los Angeles judge.
Kelis may have given her newborn son an important life lesson: It's all about the Benjamins, baby.
A day after the singer gave birth to a son, Knight, at a New York hospital, a judge granted the singer nearly $40,000 a month in supporter from estranged husband, Knight's father Nas. According to The Associated Press, a Los Angeles judge order the rapper to pay Kelis $30,791 in spousal support and also shell out $9,027 for baby Knight. Kelis Gives Birth, Bars Nas From Baby
Kelis and Nas (real names Kelis Rogers and Nasir Jones, respectively) … Read More
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Break up, change your Facebook relationship status to single and watch the support pour in.
"So?" he asked me. "Is there anything else you want to say?"
I was bursting with more: that he could thank his manic ex-girlfriend for gnawing off the root of another of his relationships; that he was an absolute coward for not breaking up with me in person; that he would gain great benefits from the use of Crest White Strips. But I bit down hard and said, "No."
"Good. Well then take care."
"WAIT!" I said. "You should know that right this second I'm heading to Facebook to change our relationship status."
"But I'm driving!" His voice squeaked … Read More
The star stands up for his woman in an interview with Rolling Stone.
When it comes to talking smack about his woman, just know that if you mess with the bull, you might get the horns. Us Magazine reports Brad Pitt comes out in his woman’s defense in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Evidently, a reporter for the New York Times recently reported that Angelina is “a master at manipulating the press” and Brad does not really appreciate that. The actor says, “It sounded to me like the story made Angie out to be manipulative in some way…She is savvy.” Pitt goes on to say, “I get … Read More
Learning what it really means to support a husband.
We are fighting over socks. His socks. He has a knack for leaving them in the most bizarre places. The bathroom cupboards. The kitchen counter. This time they were behind the TV. Now they are balled in my hands, and I am muttering something about not being his slave. How can socks make their way behind the TV of all places?
Dave, my husband, is silent for a moment, and then he begins to smile a large sheepish grin. A consummate football fan, Dave shrugs and says, "The Vikings lost." I don’t laugh. "Why are you so mad? Is there … Read More