By Sameer Kamat
Housewife and motherhood or Career-womanNo matter what your qualifications and capabilities are, if you are a woman, the roadmap is more or less pre-defined for you. After marriage, you’d be expected to settle down. Which indirectl ...
Posted Sunday, March 26th 2017 at 7:15PM
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I like sunflowers. Ringed by those outrageously yellow petals, their impossibly large heads stand ten feet in the air and perform a pendular dance every day as they follow the sun’s course across the sky.
I’ve learned that if I want to grow sunflo ...
Posted Sunday, March 26th 2017 at 1:03PM
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As a savvy single, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that after all the time, energy, and work that goes into finding the right long term relationship, things could ever go south. But with divorce statistics pointing to over half of all marriages en ...
Posted Saturday, March 25th 2017 at 11:38PM
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Inside all of us is a Love Bank with accounts in the names of everyone we know. When these people are associated with our good feelings, "love units" are deposited into their accounts, and when they are associated with our bad feelings, love units ...
Posted Saturday, March 25th 2017 at 8:58AM
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I never fight with my wife. Never. Neither should you.
Despite what you may have read in a book, heard from a marriage expert or believe from watching other couples (or even your own relationship) fighting is not inevitable in marriage. You ca ...
Posted Friday, March 24th 2017 at 7:19AM
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Women may fault men saying they don’t like to cuddle and jump too quickly to sexual intercourse. My practice as well as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction suggests this is not true. According to Kinsey’s research, among ...
Posted Thursday, March 23rd 2017 at 8:49AM
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Hungry for an unforgettable new scent? Today's perfumes are redolent of caramel, fresh ginger, grapefruit, pink peppercorn, even just-baked bread.
I stand at the end of the long, elegant, crystal-and-silver-laid dinner table at the Carlyle hotel on ...
Posted Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 at 10:49AM
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Flashback to when I first started a relationship with my boyfriend: I was three years younger and terrified of the women who called his phone multiple times a day. Her only child was barely into his first year of college, and it was safe to say she w ...
Posted Tuesday, March 21st 2017 at 12:52PM
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Thoughts on the Application of 1 Corinthians 7:3–5
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 4:05PM
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Nobody likes a regifter. Have you ever received a gift that you either didn’t like or had no use for? It sat unopened in your closet or drawer for months. Then your best friend’s birthday came up—he or she could really use the item. Should you give i ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 3:51PM
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Monday, March 20 is more than just the spring equinox (when the length of day and night is equal), it’s also National Proposal Day. Yes, that’s actually a thing, and we’re super excited about it.
We’ve gathered some proposal stories to inspire ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 2:29PM
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There are structures of “loving discipline” that must take place between a couple. There will be times in the relationship where each of you will do something “wrong”, and when this happens you will feel the urge to “correct” this behavior, to teach ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 12:51PM
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Picture the scene. Paris, in the spring: Easter Sunday morning in the square by Notre Dame, my wife, Heidi, and I are strolling hand-in-hand under the blossom trees by the side of the cathedral.
It’s our first weekend away together since the child ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 12:36PM
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Hello, my future wife.
Whether you are reading this before you meet me, or stumble upon it after, I want you to know a few things.
The reason I am writing this today is because I can't stop thinking about you, and I can't stop myself from i ...
Posted Monday, March 20th 2017 at 10:46AM
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How did I get so lucky to have you
in my life? You make me feel so adored.
You are my workout partner, something
I've always craved for.
You tickle me and make me laugh.
You follow me when I take a bath.
Your patience reigns supreme. Yo ...
Posted Sunday, March 19th 2017 at 8:25AM
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Have you ever wondered why the Twelve Days of Christmas speaks of Two Turtle Doves? I’ve recently learned some things about these birds that allow the romantic in me appreciate them a little more than just a pigeon type bird that feeds off the scrap ...
Posted Saturday, March 18th 2017 at 2:35PM
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Like most little boys, I hung out with my mom a lot while I was growing up. She always had these little one liners that sounded like she’d just pulled them from a fortune cookie.
“Blossom where you’re planted.”
“Actions speak louder than words. ...
Posted Friday, March 17th 2017 at 8:26PM
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A Greek philosopher once defined man as a rational animal. If you think about it at all, you will realize that this is a terrible definition. Man may be a thinking animal, but much of what men do, maybe even most of what they do ...
Posted Friday, March 17th 2017 at 2:41PM
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Everything I do I think of you.
The best lover award I give to you.
Why is the need so strong.
Stretching to reach you I extend my
arm.
Lord have mercy, you turn me on!
I don't know how I survive when
you're not around. Since I met you ...
Posted Friday, March 17th 2017 at 9:08AM
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Marriage definitely isn't the only way to find self-fulfillment.
BY GRACE ZEDLER
Every now and again, even in the midst of ticking off my “Thirty Things to Do Before 30” list, my single life can feel a bit dry. The endless cycle of paying bills, ...
Posted Friday, March 17th 2017 at 7:11AM
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by Laura Argintar
Before we begin, I'd like you to step into my lair a little bit. I promise I won't get weird. Turn up a little “Samson” by Regina Spektor or “Skinny Love” by Birdy or whatever soft piano/acoustic/vocal mashup you got in your arse ...
Posted Thursday, March 16th 2017 at 7:28AM
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