24: Woman Married 23 Times Looks For Next Husband
A tipster sent us a story about Linda Wolfe, a 68-year-old Indiana woman who has been married 23 times.
HuManity One Step Closer To Virtual Sex • British Man Told He's 'Too Fat' To Adopt
• Entirely virtual sex? Perhaps, thanks to the RealTouch, which uses lubrication jets, heating elements and other gadgetry programmed to "give men the feeling of sex." No word, of course, on what women get. •
107-Year-Old Woman Begins Husband Hunt
After over a century of looking after herself, Wang Guiying, 107, has decided to get married. The Chinese woman avoided marriage after observing men scold and beat their wives. Guiying hopes by taking a husband, she will ease the burden on her nieces and nephews, who she fears are too old to take care of her. [Daily…
Is It Tacky To Wear A Wedding Gown I Got To Marry A Different Man?
I'll readily admit to being the world's worst most inept, overwhelmed, procrastinating bride. But! The one thing that's taken care of is my dress. I'll just wear the one I got for my first engagement.
Tom & Gisele Are Tying The Knot
Word on the street is that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady popped the question to supermodel gf Gisele Bündchen whilst on a private jet en route to Boston. Mazel tov to the ridiculously attractive couple. [Star]
Father Of The Bride?
"That ain't going to happen. I'm doing everything I can to try to get her away from him." - the father of Drew Peterson's rumored fiancee. [UPI]
Couple's First Kiss Happened At The Altar
We've heard of no sex before marriage, but no kissing? Melody Laluz, 28, and Claudaniel Fabien, 30, got married over the weekend, and when they smooched at the altar, it was their first kiss on the lips. They were friends for two years and in a "courtship" for one year, but since they both teach abstinence courses to…
Sexless Marrieds Take Solace In Online Forum
I am going to feel responsible for bringing y'all down from your Obama high, but there's
this article in the about one of the Experience Project's and it's fairly bittersweet. The Experience Project is sort of like Post Secret: the message board — it's a place for people to anonymously share their stories. The "I…
Sad Fact: Politicians Must Have "Perfect" Marriages
It's undeniable that the spouses and families of Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin have played a substantial part in the election narrative, and their public prominence
has inspired Melinda Henneberger to ask, "when is the public going to figure out what it expects from political marriages? How long are we going to keep…
The Washington Post's Wedding Week Incites A "Bridal Wave" Of Ambivalence
Feeling uneasy about your marital status? Well the
Washington Post's is here to ratchet your anxiety up several levels! And I'm here to summarize the paper's nuptial coverage so that you don't have to actually read it! Let's start with the most endearing story and work our way from there. Two disgruntled…
Husband Takes Wife's Last Name, Is Subject To Ridicule From Buddies
Screenwriter Kris Dyer married his girlfriend Jo Myddleton last October. Since he thought his last name was "rubbish," he decided to
change his surname to Myddleton, and surprisingly the most irritating part of the process was not the bureaucratic leaps and bounds Kris had to go through to change his name, it was the…
Ellen & Portia May Wed... But Is Marriage Itself That Great Of A Goal?
Over on Feministing, there's a
post about a the commercial at left, which has apparently been playing in California. In the spot, a bride encounters a variety of annoying obstacles on her wedding day. It's a struggle just to get the aisle, and she never quite makes it the aisle. The copy at the end of the ad…
The Author Of The Rules Tricks Another Dude Into Marrying Her
We know, we know: Ellen Fein, 50, she of nauseating self-help book
The Rules, . Again. There's a big story in Sunday's . This is the woman who wrote all about snagging a guy — "Trust in the natural order of things," her book advises. "Namely, that man pursues woman." — and then had her husband leave her after 16 years…
7 Ways Weddings Can Actually Be Fun
The wedding from Planet Excess is going the way of the American auto industry, says a story in the Washington Post. Which brings me, it just so happens, to a story about myself! I'm currently stuck in Seattle, where I attended a really great wedding on Saturday only to get stranded because of bad weather, so in the…
Georgia Woman Turns Engagement Lemons Into Lemonade Cold Hard Cash
RoseMary Shell gave up an $81,000 a year job in Pensacola, Florida to move in with her fiance, Wayne Gibbs in Gainesville, Georgia. A few days before they were to be married in early 2007, Wayne left RoseMary a 'Dear John' letter in the bathroom (is that better or worse than a break up
Post-it??) and instead of…
Bridesmaid Revisited: How Friends' Beauty Standards Affect Our Own
Yeah, yeah we know: the
Times has a ludicrous article up about their bridesmaids, mothers and mothers-in-law to get Botox, boob jobs and chemical peels for their most special of special days. And yes, it's a disgusting display of materialism, looksism, narcissism and many other unfortunate -isms that we would not…
YouTube Queen Tricia Walsh-Smith Says She'd "Be Better Off In Baghdad"
Tricia Walsh-Smith, the playwright who made made headlines earlier this year for posting a series of YouTube videos in which she revealed her husband, theater magnate Philip Smith, to be an erectile dysfunctioning cold-hearted guy, was divorced by said husband yesterday on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.…
The Secret Message Of Page Six Magazine's "Real Life Carrie Bradshaw" Story
As anyone who saw the brilliant (if heavy-handed) Marxist satire Sex & The City: The Movie can attest, Modern Love knows no more determined foe than excessive product placement. But some women were too busy planning extravagant destination weddings for 250 to go see the movie with their 10 bridesmaids in time to save…
O Writer Claims That Beneath Every Marriage Runs The "Chyron Of Divorce"
The eminently reasonable Hanna Rosin, whom you might remember as the journalist guinea pig who agreed to stay within 15 feet of her husband for 24 hours, is dismayed by an O: Oprah Magazine article called "Divorce Dreams" by New York Times scribe Ellen Tien. And Rosin is piqued for good reason: Tien says some…
So It's Not A Jinx To Dedicate Your Book To Your Fictional Future Husband?
Nicola Kraus, one of the authors of the Nanny Diaries just put an end to 33 years of the misery of singledom by getting married to a man. Oh my god how did she do it??? I knew you'd ask! According to Vows:
