It’s all about the children!
As I mentioned in a previous post, a common argument against same-sex marriage is that the State licenses marriages as part of their interest in promoting procr...
Category: Marriage and Relationships
Would you support such a measure?
Quoting a news report: Revocation of all marriage licenses issued in Nebraska in cases where no children are born within two years, making exceptions for physic...
Get married, live longer?
Being someone who is not married – though I’ve been engaged for six years! – I see online a lot of articles discussing marriage. And there’s a good ...
Divorcing over weight gain
Let’s take a break from talking about politics, religion, the Casey Anthony trial, and everything else to focus on a question about relationships. Let me ...
Revisiting the practice of the wife taking the husband’s surname
Recall that about two months ago I discussed the well-ingrained tradition of the woman taking the husband’s name when they marry. Well, recently the Wall ...
Standards of commitment
I have friends who are both married and not. I have a friend who, last year, divorced her husband after he abandoned her. Let me ask this one question of everyo...
What’s in a name?
A man marries a woman. Traditionally she takes his last name, but some woman opt against doing this for various reasons. Who knew that the idea of a woman not t...
Marriage = Commitment?
I’m a guy who is of the belief that when you read stuff intended for women, you learn more and best about what women want and how women think. As such I find my...
Rights of marriage
Here’s an interesting question that no one seems to be asking in this enormous debate on gay marriage: do you have a right to get married? Now if we were ...
Responding to the Republican platform – "Traditional" marriage
Over a long series of blog posts, I’m going to pick apart the 2008 Republican Platform and respond to it, one or several sections at a time. I won’t...