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Age Differences – Up Close and Personal

When Matt, the man who would become my husband, and I started dating, he was thirty-three and I was eighteen. As we grew closer, got engaged, and then married, we came to understand that age can be just a number, or it can make all the difference. Looking at the situation now through the eyes of a parent, I can honestly say that if my daughter were to come home with a man so much older than herself, I would probably call the Mafia and see if I could arrange a hit. I’ve heard of (and seen) too many situations … Continue reading →

Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy Engaged And Kelly Rutherford Ends Her Marriage

Wow, talk about a pair made in Dancing Heaven! Hot stuff strutter Karina Smirnoff and handsome hunk Maksim Chmerkovskiy have announced their engagement. I can just hear hearts, both male and female, breaking all over America! Sources told E! News that the couple got engaged just before New Year’s Day. Both are currently on the “Dancing with the Stars” tour. Photo by Albert Domasin is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. Karina had been dating her “Dancing with the Stars” Season 3 partner Mario Lopez, but the two broke up after dating for two years. Given Lopez’s romantic past … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for July 15 – July 20

Today’s the day, as Michele asked already – Do You Have It? I do and I’ve been reading chapters in and around working, running errands and getting things done. Be sure to check the Media Reviews blog on Monday for my review of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows. In the meanwhile, let’s talk about marriage and our marriage blog week in review. Sunday, July 15 Marrying the Incarcerated is something many women (and some men) do. But when you meet someone after they already in prison, it can make building a lasting relationship very difficult after they are out … Continue reading →

The Marriage Blog Week in Review for Dec 23-29

Whew! What a week! We started with the roll into Christmas and we’re ending it counting down to the New Year. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve and we’ll be officially counting down the last few hours until 2007 is born. So let’s take a look at our last week of 2006 here in the marriage blog and the articles that we wrote to share with you. If you missed anything this week with the holidays, this is your chance to catch up on all of that. Saturday, December 23 We marked the approach of the end of the year with … Continue reading →

Top Twelve Marriage Articles of 2006

Can you pick the best marriage article of 2006? I’ve been writing here since the end of December of 2005 and I can’t tell you how hard this list was to compile, I chose one article from every month of this year and I still don’t think I’ve done every article here justice. With over a 1,000 articles to choose from, culling the list to 12 was beyond difficult. But thanks to a great year and a great co-blogger here in marriage, I’ve done my best. So without further ado, here are my picks for the top twelve marriage articles … Continue reading →

Business Owner Seeks Younger Wife – For Better Insurance Rates

We all know that health insurance is expensive. If you knew that getting married to a much younger person could greatly reduce the cost of your health insurance, would you actually consider doing it? A small business owner, who is also a Rabbi, is giving this idea a try. There are a lot of people who cannot afford to purchase health insurance for themselves, or for their families. Businesses, especially small ones, struggle with the cost of the health insurance they offer employees. You know things are bad, economically speaking, when lawmakers are seeking solutions that will make health insurance … Continue reading →

Pamela Anderson Files for Divorce

Well, they said it would not last…wait that is what they said after her marriage to Kid Rock. And they were right! Well, they probably said it again after Pamela’s latest nuptials and again, they would be right because her quickly marriage to Rick Salomon did not last either. Yes, Pamela Anderson, always the bride, never the anniversary celebrator, has filed for divorce. This will be her second divorce in just a little over a year. Pamela told Ellen DeGeneres that she was engaged on a September 2007 airing of Ellen’s talk show. Her fiancé was Rick Salomon, who was … Continue reading →

Christmas Cards, Letters, or Pictures: Which Represents You as a Couple?

Our first Christmas as a married couple, which would have been December 1995, I started the tradition of sending out Christmas cards for both Wayne and I. Back then I picked cards with funny or clever pictures, wrote a short, quick note to the recipients, and mailed them. Christmas 1999 marked the first time I attempted a Christmas letter, which I’d previously never had much respect for. Most of the ones we received painted an entirely too rosy picture of friends and family living entirely too perfect lives. We knew the letters meant well but were stretching things a bit. … Continue reading →

The Reality Show Divorce Curse Continues

Okay, if you are a celebrity, just say “no” to a reality series. Seriously – Posh Spice, are you listening? Yet another celebrity couple who let the television camera into their lives is divorcing. “Partridge Family” kid Danny Bonaduce (the redheaded precocious one) and his wife Gretchen have announced they are filing for divorce. The couple has been married for sixteen years and they have two children, a 12-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. Gretchen filed for divorce Tuesday morning under irreconcilable differences. Danny announced on “The Adam Carolla Show” that he did not want a divorce and still loved … Continue reading →

Two Splits and an Unlikely Duo

I should have known it was coming. I had just read in Star Magazine how great a relationship Drew Barrymore had with the Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. After all, Barrymore and Moretti had been together almost five years, which seemed like fifty in Barrymore years. Barrymore had not been known for long-term relationships, having been married first husband Jeremy Thomas for only six months and second husband Tom Green for a year. Then I went to the Movie and Television News section of the Internet Movie Database today and there is it – “Barrymore Splits with Strokes Drummer.” There is … Continue reading →