[picapp align=”none” wrap=”false” link=”term=wedding+rings&iid=183505″ src=”0179/44c285ca-a17a-4f7e-9e29-a24c45b752db.jpg?adImageId=11831217&imageId=183505″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /] Yesterday morning, I sat nursing Nicholas by the window as usual, when I heard the squawk down the hall. “Christian, Julianna’s awake,” I said. “Okay,” he answered. He finished shaving and went into her room as he does most mornings. And, like most mornings, their voices floated…
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High Fidelity
She wrote her story anonymously for O Magazine—the story of a couple trying to put their marriage back together after the worst kind of betrayal. Sandwiched among a series of pieces on alternative relationships, I nearly skipped over it, especially when it began by talking about the days when she was “the other woman” to…
Read MoreFor better or for worse (or not)
There’s a new series starting on NBC this week. It’s called “The Marriage Ref,” and it one-ups the rest of so-called “reality” TV by giving celebrities a chance to critique couples in real-life marital distress. One of the series promo spots boasts, “We’re gonna give couples the one thing they’ve always wanted: a winner!” …
Read MoreI Root for “Brangelina”
I’m rooting for Brangelina. It goes without saying that relationships in Hollywood generally don’t last. Famous people, for some reason, seem to be pathologically incapable of long-term commitment—with the odd exception, of course. I’m a super traditional kind of girl—the kind who got married for keeps, and who, by the grace of God, managed to…
Read MoreThe Sacred Cow
“Is it not possible for us to do with gender, sexuality, and reproduction what was long ago done with the stars? To realize that these are also secular areas…?” So says Anne Rice in the conclusion to her book, Called Out of Darkness, her memoir about her flight from and return to Catholicism. She’s talking…
Read MoreSubmission? Pshaw!
Did you know there is a whole Bible study based on “wives, submit to your husbands”? Although I live in the middle, I often find myself being harder on the right than on the left. I think that is because I live on the right side of the middle, and thus I consider conservatives to…
Read MoreConsumed
I was listening to Faith Hill yesterday on the way home from the farm when a lyric jumped out at me. “It consumes you, But that’s a given, That’s how love moves.” Maybe I was just feeling quarrelsome, but the use of that word “consume” bothered me. To consume something is “to destroy or expend…
Read MoreA Plea to Spouses
One of Christian’s biggest pet peeves is the treatment of men in advertising and comedy on TV. Men are portrayed as clueless, lazy, stupid, and easily manipulated—not to mention singleminded. I try to make him feel better by reminding him that advertising is marketed to women, but that doesn’t help—and to tell the truth, I…
Read MoreTen and counting
I’ve been thinking a lot about weddings lately. It’s coming into that time of year. Fall is the new June, you know. Or perhaps you didn’t, but in the ‘00s, Fall is wedding season. It’s also because we are celebrating a flurry of bridal showers and anniversaries—including ours. Today is our tenth anniversary, a number…
Read MoreWhy I Love My Husband…
Every so often, you get a day that reminds you of all the things you love about the person with whom you have chosen to spend your life. This weekend, I had one of those days. Appropriately enough, it all happened at a wedding… …except for the last reminder of why I love my husband, which…
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Kathleen M. Basi 