Is Divorce Contagious?

Yes, divorce can be contagious. An April 2014 joint study from Brown University, Yale University and the University of California, San Diego, found that people are 75 percent more likely to be divorced if one of their friends is divorced. Copycat divorces usually occur because someone is unhappy in their marriage and wishes they were […]

Consequences of Grey Divorce

The divorce rate in the United States among people 50 or older has doubled since 1990, according to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. And as the American population steadily ages, grey divorces will keep rising. By 2030 it is estimated that 800,000 […]

Family Estate Planning

Few people plan to die young—and almost everyone assumes they will live a relatively long time. Nothing brings reality into sharper focus than hearing about a family who suffers financially as a result of poor financial or estate planning. The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, brings this […]

Flirting Can Be Fun

If you are a woman, flirting definitely works when you want something from someone—because feminine charm works as an advantage. When you smile, look at the person, lean forward and even touch the person’s arm, you will usually get what you want from that person—as opposed to being polite, serious and direct. Flirting can be […]

Rate Your Date

How many times have you wished you could rate the date you just had? Now you can! There is a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends. Lulu is an iTunes app for women to rate and score their dates. On Lulu women can rate […]

Cheaters and Infidelity

Do men really cheat on their spouses more than women do—or do they just get caught more often?  Men have always been the ones who are tagged as the “cheaters”—but today the genders are almost equally unfaithful—23% for men and 19% for women according to a professor of family relations at a University in Ontario. The […]

Grey Divorce

Fifty years ago only 2.8 percent of Americans over fifty were divorced. This statistics has risen drastically over the years. In 2011, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 15.4 percent divorced and 2.1 percent were separated. While divorce rates have gone down, the divorce rates for people over 50 has doubled since 1990. […]

Dismantling a Marriage

No one gets married with divorce in their minds. Unhappily, statistics show that half of all marriages will end in divorce. Facing a divorce, and the end of a marriage, is a traumatic event. It has been equated to the death of a parent. It is a very sad time in one’s life. It is […]