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Married to Wikipedia: The Evolving Marriage

Married to Wikipedia: The Evolving Marriage

By Jill Edelman . 1:14 pm

The Expert: About a decade ago, I worked with a May-December Coupledom, the wife almost twenty years junior to her hubby, who were at a marital crossroads. The images each had originally held of the other were now anachronistic. The husband seemed trapped in the patriarchal position of most knowledgeable, the decider and the protector. […]

Coupledoms, Focus On Education!

Coupledoms, Focus On Education!

By Jill Edelman . 4:39 pm

Clarifying Priorities: I do not consider myself an expert on economics, not even adequate, but I am an expert on couples and families. Today’s New York Times’ Op Ed column by David Brooks is a must read for couples with children. Scroll down to paragraph 7 and read his description of something he terms “Red […]

Oldies but Goodies: Women are Frightened But Men Are Not Listening: The Disconnect in The Coupledom

Oldies but Goodies: Women are Frightened But Men Are Not Listening: The Disconnect in The Coupledom

By Jill Edelman . 4:50 pm

The October nor’easter did in fact leave southern Connecticut without power…again. So while Jill is reading by candlelight, here is one of her most popular posts from the past year or so. Excerpt: A couple sits in my office reviewing a painful exchange in which the wife ascribed a well-intentioned action of her husband’s to […]

Love Her For Who She Is: 10-17-11

Love Her For Who She Is: 10-17-11

By Jill Edelman . 4:23 pm

Ronan: I had an idea for today’s post but dropped it this morning when I read Emily Rapp’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times, Notes From A Dragon Mom, about her son Ronan, eighteen months old, who has Tay-Sachs Disease. The article is painful, so I am not suggesting it to readers without a useful motive. […]

A Times Square Gal: 10-05-11

A Times Square Gal: 10-05-11

By Jill Edelman . 8:55 pm

New York, New York: We are heading in to NYC to see “Anything Goes” today. Our daughter and I. We are frequent attendees of the Times Square area, going back to her first Broadway show, which I think was, “Once Upon A Mattress” with Sarah Jessica Parker, (or maybe “The King and I” with Donna […]

Husbands Without Friendships or Heart: Why?

Husbands Without Friendships or Heart: Why?

By Jill Edelman . 5:22 pm

Boys Are Socially Illiterate? Niobe Way, a psychologist at New York University whose area of specialty is adolescent development, recently published a book entitled Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and The Crisis of Connection. The book focuses on her research on male adolescent friendships, her experience as a high school guidance counselor and observations as the […]

An Oblong Moon and Courage: 9-18-11

An Oblong Moon and Courage: 9-18-11

By Jill Edelman . 10:17 pm

A Revelation of Relief: Driving home from Ridgefield after dropping our daughter off following the movie “The Help” I saw this oblong moon in the sky. It was formed by an unusual arrangement of clouds framing its intense orb. Folks clearly had their first Fall fires burning in fireplaces and the car registered 50 degrees […]

Closing In On Fall: 8-22-11

Closing In On Fall: 8-22-11

By Jill Edelman . 2:53 pm

September Schedule: When your children are no longer following a school semester schedule (first time in 21 years for us) and you happen into a Staples or even CVS, busting at the seams with frantic moms and distracted kids racing around with baskets full of notebooks and binders, it comes as a shock. Oh no, […]

Losing A Friend: 8-15-11

Losing A Friend: 8-15-11

By Jill Edelman . 12:04 pm

What Do You Say? Our daughter lost a school friend yesterday. I received an email while we were lunching with her cousins that one of her classmates died suddenly, unexpectedly. They had shared a graduation two months earlier. I didn’t tell her at first but waited until we were back in her apartment and her […]

Women are Frightened But Men Are Not Listening: The Disconnect in The Coupledom

Women are Frightened But Men Are Not Listening: The Disconnect in The Coupledom

By Jill Edelman . 5:27 pm

Women Know Something That Men Need to Know: When a friend mentioned that her teenage daughter’s driving instructor suggested she relax her shoulders, complimented her appearance and bemoaned the fact that his job restricted personal revelations, the mom’s antennae went sky-high. It soared when her daughter added that her girlfriend had similar inappropriate moments with […]

Husbands Have Changed: Have Wives Noticed?

Husbands Have Changed: Have Wives Noticed?

By Jill Edelman . 11:41 pm

Time Out to Consider Dad: Saturday’s New York Times (6/19/10), in anticipation of  Father’s Day, published an article by Tara Parker Pope entitled “For Fathers, A Tough Balancing Act”. The article and a similar piece in the New York Times November 2, 2009 by Laurie Tarkan “Fathers Gain Respect From Experts (and Mothers)” inspired me […]

How to Accept and Enjoy Differences

How to Accept and Enjoy Differences

By Jill Edelman . 7:18 pm

Couples often are strikingly bewildered by their partner’s inability to feel what they feel and act as they do. It does not easily compute that this person, with whom I have chosen to spend my time, thinks so differently and behaves so “unlike me.” And the “unlike me” is the operative word here. The human […]

 

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