Still a Match?

After ten years of marriage, writer Gina DeMillo Wagner was worried. Too many friends, all married about the same length of time, were getting divorced. Her own parents had split up at the ten-year mark. She and her husband were still in love, she thought, but there were some problems that raised her anxiety.

So she decided to try an experiment. They would create profiles on a popular dating site and see if it matched them. That, she decided, would prove that they were still compatible. Or not.

Wagner's Washington Post article describes what happened next, and what the unexpected result really proved.
 

That's What I Had In Mind...

...when I said "I Do."


 

The Romance of Eye Contact

Leave it to an eye surgery clinic to come up with a fun infographic about what happens when we gaze into each other's eyes.

Click on the image to see the whole story.
 

Top o' the Tweets

Twitter gives me statistics on what they consider my "top tweets". For this top ten list, I have not included those that link back to a post on my own blog.

• The person you have children with will be a member of your family for the rest of your life. Choose wisely.
• "I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The things you did to woo your spouse way back then just might be effective now.

Husband Or Child?

A while back I read an online complaint by a guy whose wife yelled at him for leaving his dirty socks and underwear on the floor.

He pointed out that the dog had recently thrown up on the carpet. His wife didn't get mad and yell at the dog, she just cleaned up the mess. He also noticed that their toddler habitually left toys scattered about. She didn't get mad and yell at the baby, either. She just picked up the toys.

Why, the writer wanted to know, did his wife treat the dog and the baby better than she treated him?