Divorce is no laughing matter

Divorce is the likely fate for almost half of all marriages. Which, if you can bear to be entirely cold-blooded about a hugely traumatic emotional event, makes it extraordinary that some people still manage to be so bad at it – and even more extraordinary that the bitterness of divorcees should be celebrated. This week, the Telegraph ran an interview with Robin Williams (who's on some sort of a promo junket for a new Zelda game, Skyward Sword), which was headlined with one of the actor's old gags about the emasculating effects of alimony.

"Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." (Presumably this was met with much high-fiving at Nintendo PR HQ: "We've got a page! It doesn't mention the game much, but there's a castration angle, which we think is very on-brand.") It's journalistically perverse to lead on a dredged-up line. But it's even more perverse to think that there was a time in Williams's career when it seemed like a smart or civil thing to wring comic material out of the dissolution of two relationships by likening paying maintenance to the mothers of his children to being violently desexed.

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Do Women Now Want Sex More Than Men?

What happens if a woman wants and initiates as much if not more sex than her partner? In a perfect world, they are happily copulating, the war between the sexes softening in a post-coital haze. But the world, of course, isn't perfect.

A year ago, I woke to a phone call from a friend, a high school teacher in her early 40s, complaining that the night before, the man she was seeing had wanted to watch movies and cuddle, while she wanted sex. When she told him if they weren't going to have sex she'd rather sleep at home, his feelings were hurt. She said the emotional part of the relationship (he was talking marriage) was draining her and that without nightly hot sex, she wasn't sure it was worth the effort.

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How To Be a Good Husband

Jimmy Carter: Well, I think a good husband for one thing has to depend on having a good wife and I was lucky enough to choose the right woman and we were married more than 64 years ago. Rosalynn and I have run into a few things, first of all, we give each other plenty of space. We don’t try to encroach on the private affairs of each other. Rosalynn has her own major commitments outside of home and so do I. We cooperate whenever we can, we share delightful aspects of life like fly-fishing and bird watching and things of that kind.

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How to ask a guy out

Anyway, whatever the explanation, the fact is that single women are more accustomed to being asked out, and single guys are more accustomed to doing the asking — which means there’s not a lot of data out there about how men like to be approached for a first date. With an eye toward correcting this imbalance, here are my observations about the best way to hit on a guy, whether it’s someone you work with, someone you’ve met online, or someone you’ve just rear-ended at a busy intersection.

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Greed destroys relationships

We are at a crossroads, people are unhappy with their heterosexual relationships and are looking for alternatives.  More gay people are getting their rights, in the military, in entire states like New York, and President Obama is leaning toward accepting marriage between gays. 

The one factor that is hurting a male/female relationship is the greed that infects our families, relationships, careers, and entire lives.  This is based on one philosophy that we accept without question, capitalism.  Capitalism creates this overly ambitious and greedy environment that hurts our relationships with our wives, husbands, and children.  It is high time we look for alternative economic systems that lessen the stress greed places on us to save our families, marriages, and society itself.

Are nudists couples happier than most others?

It seems nudists have more honesty in their relationships.

And when they want to chat someone up, they do not use your body the same way they would have used it if they were “textile” confirm all the nudists. 56 year old lawyer Richard Tagliani explains that he met his wife in a nudist camp 25 years ago. “ When I tried to pick her up, I used my brain more than my body. I had to be smart enough to convince her that I was a guy worth spending time with.” Looking at her husband with a broad smile, 44 years old Florence adds, “ when you are nudist all the things that are not related to the body become important. I remember that his look was one of the first thing I was attracted to. When you meet a nudist, you know he can not lie to you”.

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Living in a "free" country

I submit that online dating sites are causing much more harm than helping.  The divorce rate in this libertine country is 60%, and that is probably a conservative estimate.  Does that mean that 40% are happily married, or just suffering along in silence.  I'd say only 2% are happily married, the others are just pretending.  Freedom does come with consequences, I'd say it's far from free.