The Marriage Dilemma

There are many reasons why the marriage rate has dropped drastically in the United States, and one may be the student-loan debt. A person who has graduated from a private university and borrowed money to pay his or her tuition could owe as much as $200,000. After graduating many cannot get a job and have […]

Be Thankful

Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.     —Oprah Winfrey

Why Marry?

It is common knowledge that marriage is risky mainly because the divorce rate, though down from its peak of one in two marriages in the early 1980’s, remains high. Besides, you can live a perfectly respectable life today without getting married. Having children outside of wedlock has also become common. Even so, it’s surprising how […]

Internet Privacy

There is no such thing as Internet privacy!  And there is no escaping the fact that the Internet knows more about you than you’d like. Your life is an open book. When someone Googles your name they can find out much more about you than you’d want. But Google doesn’t tap into the extensive world […]

Infidelity—Can you forgive?

Can you ever forgive infidelity? And, can you ever recover from infidelity? It is very difficult to forgive (and forget) someone when they have been unfaithful.  The first thing you have to think about and ask yourself  is—do you really want to—or is this the perfect excuse to end or get out of a bad […]

Proposal Planners

There are matchmakers, wedding planners, fashion stylists, floral designers and now there are proposal planners!  These consultants advise men, and sometimes women, who can’t figure it out for themselves, how to propose—sometimes in grand style.  For a fee a proposal planner helps create a scenario for the moment and assist in its execution. While the bride tends […]

How To Attract A Man

Some things to think about: —The first thing to remember is not to size up every man you meet as “marriage material.”  Men sense it if you are and run the other way. —There’s nothing more appealing to men than a woman who always seems to be happy and having a good time. Be easygoing […]

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 […]