You just got married. You and your spouse both have children from previous relationships. You have two daughters enrolled in a private all-girls school. He has three children (two boys and a girl) enrolled in the local public school system. You and your spouse bought a new house after the wedding, but stayed in the same neighborhood. Assume that ( Read more... )

In the US, more than half the births to women under 30 now occur outside of marriage. The fastest growth is among white women (with some college education). Overall, "73 percent of black children are born outside marriage, compared with 53 percent of Latinos and 29 percent of whites." The key difference is education: "About 92 percent of college- ( Read more... )

Imagine your spouse has had an affair.

Imagine you find it in yourself to forgive them and move on (Imagine! I know that's hard).

Now, do you think you deserve (or expect) an apology from the person they had an affair with?

What if that person is a close friend of yours?

There's an article in today's issue of The Wall Street Journal that says, in a nutshell, that babies ruin marriages. The Relationship Research Institute in Seattle reports that 2/3 of couples say the quality of their relationship dropped after having a child. The article lists four main reasons: intensifying conflict, changing roles, dulled ( Read more... )

Congratulations! You're getting married in a few weeks! Well, you're having a wedding, at least; you were legally married a few months ago for [insert reason here -- let's say health insurance], but as far as anyone knows, you're getting married not too long from now. You haven't told anyone (friends, family, acquaintances...) about your legal ( Read more... )

You're looking for an important holiday picture on your family's computer and while burrowing through the C drive you find TONS of illegal porn. Your fourteen year old son uses the computer most often and last week was caught downloading legal porn, lied about it, and is now being punished. The illegal porn files are dated to indicate that they ( Read more... )

If a spouse snores badly enough to keep the other spouse awake at night, to the point of not being able to fall asleep, who should have to leave the bed?

Assume treatments for snoring (CPAP, nose strips, etc) are ineffective or the snoring spouse is unwilling to use them.

But it's a slow Saturday, so what the hell.

So, booj, how dead would YOUR daughter be if she sent a letter like this to her sister? ( Read more... )

Do you feel spouses having a "date night" after they have children is important?   Why?

If you do feel it is important, how often is the bare minimum you feel it should occur?  Once a week?  Once a month?  Once a year?

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I was talking to my 4 year old daughter today and she asked if I got married before she and her older brother was born. I said that yes we did, my husband then said yes we did it the right way round. She then asked if you were meant to get married first to which my husband answered yes. She then asked if the police will take you away if you have a ( Read more... )