Video games are very good at teaching, even if they have to repeat the lesson over and over. Sometimes the lesson is “don’t fall into that bottomless pit.” Other times it’s “she’s just not that into you.”
Ugh. But is it grounds for divorce? One upstate New York man certainly thinks so! Although it's a bit more complicated than that.
Apparently, couples who separate — but don't divorce — are a common modern phenomenon.Omaha Sage Warren Buffett, Jann Wemmer, and Willem de Kooning all fall into this "It's Complicated" category.. [NYT]
Exciting news people! I'm not getting married. The reasons are not too hard to understand, but the problem that frames them is complicated.
Lori Gottleib thinks you should settle for "Mr. Good Enough." Elizabeth Wurtzel concurs. Cristina Nehring thinks you should settle for nothing less than Sorrows of Young Werther-grade transcendent love. Sandra Tsing-Loh and Liz Gilbert were both at one point settled…
If the unexamined life isn't worth living, well, this writer's in serious luck. The rest of us? Judge for yourselves (and no, that wasn't snark):
When Michael Buday married Diana Bijon, he decided he wanted to take her last name. "It was personal. I feel much closer to (Diana's) father than I do mine... I never imagined the state would make it so difficult," he says. It took a $350 fee, court appearances, a public announcement and mounds of paperwork to have…
Sometimes the Lord knows when you need an uplifting email in your inbox, and Lord, thou hath choseth an auspicious day. Perhaps, readers, recent sudden public marital undoings have stirred up those lingering doubts, those damaging "Enlightenment" era thoughts about the fundamental alienation present within every…
