When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself..

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints..

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place..

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision..

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next on….

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address..

I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited….

I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me….

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it..

I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't fig….

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain….

An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and charac….

Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful..

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say th….

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy be….

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only one….

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!.

I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some ….

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk..

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again..

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars..