Forget about "two becoming one" when a man and woman marry; in fact, what we really experience is a "his" and a "hers" marriage -- a husband's and a wife's.
The next time your spouse hides out in front of the TV instead of helping with chores, you might want to show him (or her) this research. In a stu...
Marriages should be equal, and that has to mean equal housework too. Laundry, cleaning, child care, scheduling playdates, and buying groceries—it sh...
How can you convince your male spouse to pitch in and help with household chores? Feminist activist Gloria Steinem weighed in when she visited me on M...
With a little organization and communication, you can save money, make your life more pleasant, and strengthen your family as a team. Here are seven steps that can help.
Instead of being bossy, feel the vulnerability you seek to avoid by complaining and controlling. Give yourself a hug. Give your kid a hug. Shut the f**k up! Your kid doesn't need fixing.
It's that time of year again when parents are resolving to lose weight, join a gym and attend classes regularly, breathe deeply frequently and stop screaming and on and on the list goes. In most of these cases these same issues show up on next year's list, right?
Your kids have the dexterity and intelligence to contribute. You'll be shocked by what they're capable of and the pleasure they may take in being helpful.
The clothes I washed and folded were tangible signs of the growth of my kids -- from itty bitty socks to football player stinkers, from carters undies with hearts and teddy bears to thongs and strapless bras. There has been a wistful sense of time passing through the laundering of my family's clothing.
Most of the men I know feel like they are torn daily in many directions. If that sounds familiar, it is because women have felt this way for decades.
A husband gets into his grubbiest clothes on a Saturday morning and sets about doing all the chores he's been putting off for weeks. He cleans the gar...
I'll bet you do. That's right: you, over there. The one who just fished a shirt to wear to work out of the pile of dirty clothes on your bedroom floor.
Conservatives may indeed be right -- same-sex marriage has the power to take marriage and spin it on its head. And that should be something all hetero husbands, wives and would-be spouses should celebrate.
It may not seem like a big deal when your partner makes the bed and mistakenly puts the pillows that are clearly decorative shams behind the plain whi...
The only thing worse than doing chores is having to do them twice. According to a recent study by UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's, women spend an ...
The old adage may ring true. If you want something done right, do it yourself...at least if you're a woman. A new British study found women spend on a...
When we do get help and take some time for ourselves in the midst of our busy lives, we feel much better about ourselves.
We already knew from the World Economic Forum's 2011 Global Gender Gap Report that, according to criteria like health, economic and educational partic...
Every year we get cards from friends and family. The handwriting is always the same because it is usually the women who do the "card thing." Why is that?
Perhaps the biggest question is why so many women believe that they are doing the greater share of family work, and why men believe that the work that they contribute at home is never enough.
The research on dads this year may not be as salacious as, say, the theories about why dad-to-be Anthony Weiner would risk his career and marriage by ...
If you look at how couples divvy up the household chores, or the tasks of caring for their children, you'll probably notice a few principles that tend to dictate the result.
Both partners want to feel like a team, and both want kudos for their hard work.
The solutions to sharing any particular chore (be that 50/50 or in any other ratio) are endless and as varied as the couples themselves. But the key is that no one "wins" and no one "loses."
What if we turned our focus inward instead, into the depths of our relationship rather than on the surface of our respective family roles? This is the secret that, time and again.
