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This New York Times article about reinventing "date night" for old marrieds reminds me of a scene in the Tom Perrotta book Little Children. One of the peripheral characters, a painfully high strung and judgmental helicopter mom named Mary Ann, brags to the other mothers at the playground that she and her husband have sex once a week like clockwork, and always on Tuesdays. And what a shocker, the Times thinks this kind of super-regimented romance is bad for your union! Instead of giving the obvious emotional reasons why this is bad, they drop some science instead: trying new things revs up your brain chemistry. More »
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