The 12 Biggest Reasons we Fight Over Finances
By MP Dunleavey
MSN.com
EXCERPT: The world can be divided into those who believe in saving for retirement and those who believe in the Retirement Fairy. If you're married to the latter type, it can be difficult to imagine your future together. As one 401(k)'d friend of mine noted, after admitting that she tends to "boil over" at her husband's lack of future planning: "You're afraid your spouse is going to end up on a park bench."
11 Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees
This 1943 magazine article offers employers such tips as:
• pick young married women (they’re more responsible than singles)
• husky girls are more efficient than slim ones
• older women who have never held a job are fussy and cantankerous
• retain a physician to reveal if potential employee has female weaknesses
What's Wrong with Staying Single?
by Bella M. DePaulo
American Sexuality Magazine
EXCERPT: Tentatively at first, I began asking other single people if they thought they were viewed and treated differently than coupled people just because they were single. The responses were overwhelming. It was time to proceed beyond anecdotes.
Listen to this article being discussed on the Single Married Widowed Divorced Podcast, February 24, 2008. Other topics on this day include: Mary Todd Lincoln's sexual frustration; fear of sex; Abe Lincoln--gay or straight?; if you're married, how to set up your household to ensure you have more sex; and why, allegedly, johns married prostitutes in the Old West.
Young Widow Reclaims Life Through Writing
by Sam Miller
Orange County Register
EXCERPT: She grabbed a legal pad and jotted ideas.
A chapter on the insensitive things people say. ("It was his time." "You'll get over it when you find a new man.")
A chapter on being a single mother. On dating. On finance. On beauty advice.
And a title: Widows Wear Stilettos.
The book will be published in August. It's touching and funny, a blend of memoir and advice that includes a recipe for Mike's green-bean casserole, a workout music mix and fashion advice: Wear a miniskirt or a low-cut top, she writes, but never at the same time.
For more stories of people dealing with widowhood, click here.
I'll Have My Change With a Little Contradiction on the Side, Please
by Julie Bergman Sender
The Huffington Post
EXCERPT: There was a very potent voting bloc -- that emerged and caucused last week in Iowa -- and then turned out and stood up in New Hampshire in overwhelming numbers: Women. And more specifically, unmarried women....
...The biggest news about the way these women caucused in Iowa is that they voted not on gender, but consistent with the issues that matter to them the most: They were the first voting bloc to place ending the war in Iraq at the top of their agenda.
Listen in while the SMWD team puts the candidates through the marital relationship spin cycle.
Guess what SMWD co-founder Mel Miskimen's been up to? Check out her new Catholic Comedy website.
Love in the afternoon: Couple meets again at their 50th high school reunion.
By Fred Swedles
Orange County Register
EXCERPT: He was happily married. She was 15 years divorced and happily single. Since then, their lives have been a rollercoaster ride of sadness, joy, mishaps, ...
A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce is Not Green
Science Daily
EXCERPT: Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water.
Till Debt Do us Part
By Mary Loftus
Psychology Today
EXCERPT: Keeping secrets about money is not only tempting in our cultural carnival of consumption, it's also on the rise. …. If you are in a serious relationship, no matter how long you've been together or how much money you have, your next fight is likely to be about money.
Financial infidelity is rampant:
Is it cheating if you lie about where the money went? Yep. And it's every bit as damaging to your relationship as the physical kind.
By Liz Pulliam Weston
MSN Money
EXCERPT: But many of us still have a tough time staying absolutely truthful with our significant others when money's involved.
No rings, 53 million strong: Unmarried women could change election
By Joe Garofoli
San Francisco Chronicle
EXCERPT: The "unmarried" bloc is emerging as this year's trendy political moniker, the granddaughter of the coveted "soccer moms" and "NASCAR dads" micro-targeted by campaigns past…."They have the power to reshape American politics further, if they vote," according to the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner study.
