Meeting Places and Romance
Law Professor Melissa Murray on the Darker Side of Marriage
"What the marriage equality movement really did not think about is that there is a kind of normalizing process that goes on in marriage," says Professor Melissa Murray. "Marriage signals that these people — the sexual relations that they have — are respectable, are valued, are worthy." more »
Why Individuals Tend to Be Paired with Partners Who Have Similar Physical, Behavioral and Psychological Characteristics
Partners who become romantically involved soon after meeting tend to be more similar in physical attractiveness than partners who get together after knowing each other for a while. The level of match on attractiveness was not associated with relationship satisfaction for either men or women in a study. Both friends-first and stranger-first relationships seem approximately equally happy years later. more »
Restoring Youth: To Reach Back and Touch the Girls We Had Once Been
Sonya Zalubowski writes: I had forgotten how we were back then so long ago. We were a pack. And now we were once again. For one fall weekend, in the same place where all our hopes and dreams were hatched nearly a lifetime ago. So much we shared. So great to touch upon it all again. This sense of gratitude for all we had once and still have. more »
Elaine Soloway's Rookie Widow Series: To Be Adored; Holiday Parties and Offended2013
"Why in the world would you want another man in your life right now (or ever)?" Why have I asked my paired-up friends to keep me in mind if they knowWhy indeed did I — now happily independent in my new downtown digs — sign up for JDate in the first place? And, why have I been spying on physically fit grey-haired men at my health club? an older single male who meets my criteria; i.e. strolls without the aid of a walker and drives at night? more »