In the current cultural moment, marriage is painted as a state completely without pleasure. Permanent domesticity is thought to be so stultifying that to endure it married people must resort to lying, cheating, drugs, and/or secrets. There’s Gone Girl, the […]

The shrinks and marriage experts call this “financial infidelity,” and it’s the latest thing in the secrets-and-lies category of relationship stories. Dr. Phil has warned against its harmful effects. Bloggers at Forbes, the New York Times, and CBS have weighed

Marissa Mayer and the lessons of Sarah Palin. A beloved editor long ago bestowed upon me her loathing of what she called “women who” stories. Women who fight wars. Women who fight fires. Women who accomplish anything significant in worlds

I am sometimes aghast at how much money I spent on my wedding dress. Four figures, more than I’d ever spent on any item of clothing before or since — enough, ten years on and one kid in, to cover