"Aging gracefully." The more I hear the expression, the less it suits me. We need to tweak the terminology, change the conversation, adjust our approach and therefore, our attitude.

I don't reject the intention in appending "gracefully" to a natural passage that we've somehow come to dread -- as...

I was flipping through one of my favorite magazines recently and came across an advice column that had me fuming. A young woman was bemoaning the fact that her guy had gotten fat. Worse, she tells the columnist, her once fit and fashionable man had grown "lazy and...

When I first heard the news, I thought it was media gossip.

When sound bites concerning the Bethenny Frankel-Jason Hoppy separation were too glaring to ignore, I told myself they'd work it out.

When I saw that the Skinnygirl mogul and reality star had filed for...

I was still married at the time, but my girlfriend wasn't. At thirty-something, she was a veritable man magnet -- smart, sassy and gorgeous. She was also divorced with two bright kids, an ex she couldn't abide and a socializing style that gave new meaning to the phrase, "don't get...

If single parenthood is a rough road, we're told to put on a brave face and "get over it." You know -- fake it until we make it. And if we can't manage to do that (to everyone else's satisfaction), we're saddled with disparaging clichés about bad attitude and poor...

I'm a straight woman, and a divorced one at that. So what can I add to the conversation regarding gay marriage?

I would like to share my thoughts, my observations, my pragmatic idealism. I would like to speak of old friends, two women, who committed to each other as a...

Some of us may never fully understand why our marriages come to an end. We revisit the circumstances, trying to learn from our mistakes, and taking a stab at processing the usual possible reasons for divorce: growing apart, infidelity, physical or emotional abuse, and other scenarios that are...

This column is based on an article which first appeared at Daily Plate of Crazy.

I have never been a widow. I can only imagine that it is horrible, otherworldly, incomprehensible.

My logic tells me that the arduous process of reconstructing a life after widowhood is heavily...

A version of this column first appeared at Daily Plate of Crazy.

Like most women, I love a good wedding. It's a moment for celebration and sentimentality. Often, it's something of a spectacle. But if it's your wedding, it may also entail planning nightmares, significant debt, and battles...

In the small town of Sanford, North Carolina, a community is watching one of their own, closely.

The fact is, without a kidney transplant, 31-year old Ashley Quiñones will die. Dialysis, which is a viable long-term option for many, isn't an option for her. Though her donor has been...

Have you ever cheated? Been cheated on? Have you suffered some other devastating betrayal at the hand of the person you loved?

In a recent article, author Pamela Haag offers her perspective on the issue of staying with a spouse following infidelity. She comments on the range of...

Are we still swooning over the smooth-talking, ever elusive, charismatic catch? Mr. Perfect, Mr. Right, My One-And-Only?

Maybe so, but most of us fall for real men -- with thinning hair or a little paunch, with a broken tooth that's never been fixed, with a tendency to posture when...

This post is based on a column which first appeared at Daily Plate of Crazy.

Some of us have been off the market for a while. The dating market, that is. And we're daunted at the thought of plunging back in -- or even sticking a baby toe...

Men and women. Our need for each other. Our obvious differences. Is there anything more fascinating? But when we marry and things go wrong, how many of us spend years struggling with the aftermath?

In the case of couples "growing apart" - if explicit issues could be identified and addressed...

Who doesn't remember the 1996 revenge fantasy, "First Wives Club," as Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton cook up an elaborate scheme to make their husbands pay for dumping them--for younger women?

I recall enjoying the movie, and at the time, I was married. Little did I know that...

Are you still looking for "the one" to set your heart on fire? The indispensable, all-powerful, absolutely-made-for-you soul mate?

Did you toss aside a perfectly loving human being, because something resembling a tiny blinker--or maybe even a fog horn--was telling or yelling that he or she was not "the one?"

A new year is upon us! What better time to initiate positive change? To find a "new you" in some significant way?

I'm no longer one for resolutions with explicit goals, though they work well for some. I know my tendency to set overly ambitious objectives, then wither...

We've had our share of celebrity scandals in the past year -- high profile splits that filled the tabloids, leaving us clucking our tongues and shaking our heads.

We were dumbstruck by the sheer number of Tiger's infidelities, and impressed by Sandra Bullock's class act. We dropped...

Nothing is ever quite the same post-divorce, and certainly not this time of year. Especially when kids are involved.

Sure, we brace ourselves for irritation when it comes to holiday visitation; it can be aggravating, emotional, and costly. But most of us suck it up and do the best we...

By now we've all heard about Prince William's planned nuptials with long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, and that the heir to the British throne presented a stunning sapphire and diamond ring to his future wife - the very one his father gave his mother for their engagement in 1981.