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Woman to Marry a Year After Being Paralyzed at Her Bachelorette Party

A woman, Rachelle Friedman, was planning to get married, when during her bachelorette party, one of her friends pushed her on the shallow end of the pool. She came out paralyzed from the waist down. I feel bad for the…
Why Buy the Cow if You Can Get the Milk for Free?

My boyfriend has made it clear to me that he is not interested in marriage right now. He says it will take him a few years to get used to the idea. I understand where he's coming from; he has a horrible view of marriage…
Hall Pass, Anyone?

So I watched Hall Pass this weekend, and it really got me thinking. Would I ever consider that if my marriage got to the point where I couldn't think of anything else? Well as of right now I would say no, but then again…
Dealing with a Mother-in-Law Who Just Doesn't Like You

My mother-in-law. Oh! My mother-in-law, what is there to say about her? This woman is something else. When me and her son got engaged and she met my family at our engagement party (which she threw for us) I thought I w…
Are Culture and Religion Factors In Who You Date?

I'm Jewish and in the United States I make up 1.71% out of a total of 309,000,000 people. Being a minority as well as a part of a religion that was almost extinct and still on its way, my family believes in the importan…
Going to a Wedding Reception Probably Means You Get to Eat Cake

I have never been to a wedding before, but I have watched lots of shows involve wedding cake making competitions. Bakers elaborately make cakes within a time limit, and whoever has the most attractive cake standing will…
You CAN'T Date My Sister!

I couldn't imagine being related by marriage to someone I hated. And hated possibly because of that never-failing gut instinct of mine, telling me that my sister's man just isn't the right guy for her, especially if she…
What Do You Do with a Mix of Love and Drugs?

In my Ethnic Women's Studies, one of the girls in my class asked my teacher if she was married. She said yeah. And her story was: "I married my high school sweetheart. He went to war. When he came back, he started doing…
Your Place Or... Mine?

I previously had an article that I had posted on Datingish that involved the outcome and consequences for getting married too soon and what people, overall, thought was "too soon." In this article, I included a "sequenc…
Shedding My Father's Surname for Marriage

A couple of months ago I talked about taking my wife's name when I get married as sort of a symbolic shedding of my father's name, which I am ashamed to bear and don't want to bear for the rest of my life. Don't get me…