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...consuming responsibility of raising a child, but sleep deprivation and unhealthy food and drinking habits—virtual cornerstones of college culture—aren’t well-suited for mothers. Besides, for many college women—who first seek a diploma, then a career, then a husband and finally a family—a child before graduation utterly ruins the master plan...
...backed up by empirical research. Yet it hasn't become a mass therapy in the U.S. One reason may be that no one has yet written a best seller about EFT. And Johnson says EFT is not for abusive marriages. She once turned away a couple in which the husband was so verbally abusive that Johnson decided she shouldn't force the wife to reveal her deepest emotions. "I'm not going to encourage one person to do that when the other is standing there with a machine gun in hand," she says...
...Surri admits that not all her SM relationships have been so balanced. After she left her second husband--Doc is her third--she "got tied into a very bad person," she says. One day the man told her to get into a dog kennel, and she willingly complied. But then he left her alone--a major no-no under the safe-sane-and-consensual guidelines taught at SM conferences. As it happened, the apartment building accidentally caught fire. Surri suffered burns and smoke inhalation. "I was nearly dead when the paramedics got to me," she says. When I ask what...
...attitudes are changing. "To be bodily close again, to enjoy whatever the aging process allows, is one of the greatest blessings I know," a woman, 73, tells sex educator Eric Johnson. "Grow old along with me," the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her new husband Robert Browning when she was 40, he was 34, and open expression of sexual desire was unheard of in polite society. "The best," she promised, "is yet to be." We're only beginning to learn how right she was. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Wendy Malloy/Tampa
...knowledge, I would counsel him not to tell her," says psychiatrist Scott Haltzman, who studies men and relationships. Yet many therapists say such behavior creates a breach of trust. Spouses often view porn as a betrayal or even as adultery. The typical reaction when a woman discovers her husband's habit is shock and "How dare he?" According to therapist Lonnie Barbach, based in Mill Valley, Calif., many such women "feel like they're not good enough. Otherwise, why would their mates be seeking this...