What About the Husbands Who Suffer When Their Wives Don’t Want Kids?
My husband is one of those men who would have had children if I’d wanted to have them. Phoena G, a woman I know strictly through the internet and who runs the childfree website Happily Childfree, is...
View ArticleHe Says He Wants Kids – But Does He Mean, “I want YOU to have kids”?
When I was married to my second husband, Ted (whose name is not Ted), we had the kids conversation before we got married. (This is discussed in both No Children, No Guilt, and – in a slightly different...
View ArticleHomemakers Are Fairly Compensated, Safe to Say
In a recent Yahoo! article, Porsche Moran asks, “How Much Is a Homemaker Worth?” and arrives at $96,261 per year. (This assumes that the jobs SAHPs – stay at home parents – do are done at the...
View ArticleMen: Stop Caving to Marriage Ultimatums
Who hasn’t heard this horror-movie scenario?: HIM: “She said, ‘Either we get married or we break up.’ So, I asked her to marry me.” That this kind of thing still happens could seem to contradict the...
View ArticleGiveaway – CONTEST CLOSED
Three signed paperback copies of What Every Woman Wishes Modern Men Knew About Women are up for grabs. Yay! The marriage (or sex life or dating life) you save could be your own. [CONTEST CLOSED. CLICK...
View ArticleRape Me Again
We didn’t have a peep-hole. We’d been meaning to put one in, but it was one of those things we didn’t feel like getting around to. A peep-hole was boring, as purchases went. Easier to just not answer...
View ArticleTrue Valentine’s Day Story
When I was married to Ted, Valentine’s Day came around, as it does every February. We’d celebrated it the first year we were together, when we’d just started dating. That year, he bought me a white...
View ArticleA non-mom’s response to thebump.com’s 10 non-mom faux pas(es?)
Over at MSNliving is a pictorial blog entry contributed by the writers at thebump.com that provides a list of 10 faux pas(es?) committed by non-moms. See the original list here. Read below for the...
View ArticleChildfree, why so mean to parents?
First: I know. Parents are also guilty of being mean to the child-free, calling us “selfish” and whatnot. So, I can see responding to a particular person who makes a particularly offensive remark. But...
View ArticleI am Wendy Williams’“fifth grade boy”
Talk show host Wendy Williams was recently quoted as saying she would love to see full-figured Adele naked in a PETA advertisement (whose images of naked women have somehow not convinced me to stop...
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