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Ask a Divorced Woman: Can I Save My Marriage?
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The Duggars Give the Gosselins Marital Advice
The parents of our favorite supersize big brood, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, were recently interviewed by The Washington's Post's Sally Quinn about marriage and family. During the interview, the couple talked about how they navigate their own relationship and why they pray for fellow TLC parents Jon and Kate Gosselin during their much-publicized marital woes.
New Rules of Marriage?
Whether you're dating, planning a wedding, or already married, I'm sure you've gotten a lot of relationship advice from other married folks. If they've listed off any of the soft rules of marriage, you might want to do some new research. On a recent segment on The Today Show, Rosemary Ellis, the editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, shared some new and improved rules of marriage that you should check out below.
You Asked: We're Not Very Good at Sex
Dear Sugar,
I have been married for a little over a year. Both my husband and I waited until we got married to have sex for the first time. As expected, we aren't very good at it.
Ask an Older Woman: Help! My Friend's With a Married Man
Conventional Wisdom is a different kind of advice column. Your questions will be answered by people from all walks of life rather than by advice experts. If you have a question you'd like answered on Conventional Wisdom, you can submit it here.
Mad Men, "The Grown Ups": This Week's 5 Maddest Moments
Did you hear it? That was the sound of the Mad Men implosion, as the death of JFK on November 22, 1963, rocked the country and the lives of the show's characters. This season has been building up to the events of this episode, which felt more intense, more important, than next week's finale can possibly be.
You Asked: Have We Out Grown Each Other?
Dear Sugar,
I am 23-years-old and I have been married for four and a half years. When I was a senior in high school, I got pregnant and I had my son shortly after graduating. Within a year, my husband and I got married (he is also the father of my son).
Group Therapy: My Marriage Has Me Confused
I've been married for almost three years now. I met my husband at work, and we got engaged after knowing each other for about a month or two, and were married a few months after that. At the time most people were shocked that things moved so quickly, but I wouldn't listen to anybody.
You Asked: Is my Marriage Over?
Dear Sugar--
I got married at 19. I am now 22 and I feel like my husband and I have nothing in common anymore. We don't even really get along anymore.
You're Ready For Marriage, He's Not, Now What?
Yesterday Jezebel wrote about an article from the New York Post in which Lori Uscher-Pines, the author of The Get-Your-Man-to-Marry-You Plan: Buying the Cow in the Age of Free Milk, offers five dos and don'ts for getting your man to pop the question. Disappointingly, some of her advice seems to promote guilt-inducing tricks, including the following:
Do create some dependency, you scheming bitch. Ha ha, kidding.
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