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Jan 15, 2008 -
I have been married for almost six years. At first my husband would help out around the house, nothing big, but he would at least pick up after himself. Now, he does nothing.
- 40 Comments
Aug 20, 2007 -
Now that two-income families are the norm, the chores and odd jobs that used to get done during the week by a stay at home mom are neglected, leaving many wives, according to an article in The New York Times, asking for a wife of their own, aka a personal assistant. Joyce Lustbader, a research scientist at Columbia University who has been married for 29 years, was quoted saying, "I work all day, sometimes seven days a week, and still have to go home and make dinner and have all those things to do around the house." I can say with certainty that she is not alone in feeling like there are just not enough hours in a day to get everything done.
- 18 Comments
Aug 01, 2007 -
I have a friend who is a vegetarian and when she recently got engaged, she told me that her grandmother asked, "Are you going to cook your fiance meat now?" We both agreed that that was totally absurd. Just because you are getting married or in a relationship, doesn't mean you would give up your values, right?
- 33 Comments
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Jul 07, 2008 -
It may seem like a joke, but wife carrying competition is a serious tradition in Finland. The practice comes from an early tribal practice of wife stealing. Sacks of rye have been swapped with wives, as the relay race is modeled after the work of 1800's bandit leader Ronkainen, who screened wannabe robbers by testing how they faired racing with sacks.
- 17 Comments
Sep 04, 2008 -
Author Curtis Sittenfeld's new book American Wife — a novel about a quiet librarian and wife of a bumbling American president — hits the stands this week. Buzz and I put our heads together to come up with a few politically-oriented questions before she chatted with Sittenfeld. Here's what the author had to say:
Do you think readers will forget that the book is based on Laura Bush?
- 17 Comments
Jul 08, 2008 -
Best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld has written American Wife — a novel about a quiet librarian, and wife of a bumbling American president. The main character "Alice" might as well be called "Laura," as the story meshes snippets from Mrs. Bush's life with the stories of Sittenfeld's imagination.
Radar has provided some arousing excerpts from the book.
- 57 Comments
Feb 16, 2008 -
Before she could even walk, Alicia was a pageant queen. Predictably, all them years of primping and crowning have gone to her head. Appearance is everything in Alicia's skin-deep world of swimsuits, head shots, and glossy gowns, but when she and her parents appeared on Wife Swap a few weeks ago, the family dynamic was far from pretty.
- 17 Comments
Jul 11, 2007 -
Men in Hollywood are looking better and better with age. But the older these leading men get, the younger their girlfriends or wives seem to be! Since these men tend to be well established in their career and incredibly wealthy, it's no wonder they always have some nice eye candy on their arm.
- 34 Comments
Nov 08, 2009 -
We're scouring the juicy (but anonymous!) secrets posted on Truu Confessions and letting you weigh in. This week, a confessor admits that she's sad her wedding is over. She says:
"I have post-wedding blues.
- 26 Comments
Nov 06, 2009 -
Is it possible to have great sex with someone you hate? That was the hot and heavy debate on last night's Parks and Recreation, when mustachioed Ron reunites with his ex-wife Tammy. The toxic couple can't talk without fighting — and the fighting inevitably leads to sex.
- 4 Comments