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Category Archives: Marriage
Old Married Couple
This old married couple is in bed. The wife feels her husband’s hand on her neck and then it travels down her shoulder and over her chest and finally down to her thighs, where it stops. “Why you stop?” asks … Continue reading
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Rabbinic Views On Love Before & After Marriage
Marc B. Shapiro writes: There is an interesting responsum of R Yair Hayyim Bacharach, Havot Yair, no. 60, that deals with a man and woman who were in love and get married despite the strong opposition of the woman’s father. … Continue reading
Options = Instability
From the Chateau: A Chateau maxim as universal and relevant to life satisfaction as the famed CH aphorism Diversity + Proximity = War. The O=I theory was introduced in this original press post: Where you have options, you have trouble … Continue reading
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Love, Marriage & Orthodox Judaism
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: The Yated “translation” omits anything about R. Shulman and R. Sher’s daughter “falling in love.” This is because there is no such concept in the haredi world (and in traditional Jewish societies, in both the Ashkenazic … Continue reading
Just how important is sex to a marriage’s success?
Economist: Ms Hicks and her colleagues found that although the frequency with which couples have sex does not have much correlation with how satisfied they claim to be with their partner, it correlates well with their automatic attitudes towards one … Continue reading
Charles Darwin’s Pros And Cons Of Marriage
From the Chateau: Charles Darwin – yes, that guy – once drew up a pro and con list for getting married. His list is reprinted here, in readable format. The standard Chateau view of marriage is that it is a … Continue reading
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Marrying Your Way Up The Academic Ladder
BLOG: I read with great interest in today’s Careerist column about Harvard Law School granting tenure to Professor Jeannie Suk. Vivia Chen stated that she was surprised to learn that Professor Suk was the first Asian-American woman granted tenure at … Continue reading
It’s Never OK To Marry A Wanker
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The Reason Women Initiate 70% Of Divorces
From the Chateau: The divorce rate and the female fertility rate, if superimposed, are practically IDENTICAL. Divorce is, to a great degree, a function of a woman’s sexual desirability and her options in the sexual market. The more romantic attention … Continue reading
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Neil Strauss & Monogamy
In the conventional MSM narrative about Neil Strauss’s new book, the former pick-up artist embraces monogamy. But that is not true. Neil’s new book does not say he’s embracing monogamy. It says he’s embracing integrity. If he or his wife … Continue reading
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