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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…
Watching Your Proposal Makes Me Dream of My Own

I have seen two proposals happen in person. The first one was in a pretty popular location. It was sometime during high school. I was in New York City, walking out of Radio City Music Center after watching The Rockettes…
The Virtues of Infidelity

Last week I was reading an article in the New York Times magazine about Dan Savage and his view of non-monogamy, entitled The Virtues of Infidelity. I found it incredibly thought provoking, and wanted to share a few exc…
50 Years of Driving Each Other Crazy

In the early 1940s, my great aunt (then in her early 20s), wed my great uncle. They were happily married for nearly 50 years until his passing in 1989. I never got to witness how much the two loved each other, but I kno…
My Generation Seems to Dislike Marriage

Many of my female peers today say that they never want to get married. (Never say never.) They just don’t see themselves being joined with another person for the rest of their lives. I understand that we’re…
Why Husbands Stop Loving Wives

A couple weeks ago I was sitting on a newly discovered cafe patio in Greenpoint, sipping iced coffee and leisurely reading from a book of breakup poetry that I got for free from a publishing internship. It was there, si…