Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revealed that he had fathered a child with another woman, Hall has demonstrated her capacity for forgiveness by continuing to appear with him in public and going on joint vacations with their four children. And proving that divorce does not have to mean the end of a relationship, the two are said to be making plans to spend New Year's Eve together in France. Now comes word that Hall has allowed the midnight rambler to move back into the spacious London home they previously shared and she retained in the divorce settlement. The two have not reverted entirely...
...stool with only a few lighting effects for embellishment, Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights (giving a bravura impression of every type of orgiastic moan) or move us with quiet compassion (a woman in her 70s describes the embarrassing episode as a teenager that all but ended her relationship with the place "down there...
While states no longer mandate separation as part of the divorce process, marriage counselors say couples often choose to separate as a last-ditch effort to change their relationship, and possibly themselves. "Many trial separations don't work because they're not 'authentic'--they're just one person's way of getting out of the relationship," says Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger. But a separation can give couples time to calm down, renegotiate the rules of the relationship and gain some needed distance...
...reconcile, but should agree in advance on what kind of contact they will have. Separated couples can agree to speak on the phone for a prearranged period, for instance, or meet once a week. Some therapists advise their clients to agree not to talk to each other about their relationship during these encounters and to use the time apart to reflect on their own lives and see what they can change about themselves. If there are children involved, Ahrons says, both parties need to agree on all the ground rules having to do with kids. Parents should also be aware...
...before, a film about a home furnishing-obsessed actuary who tries to recover his masculinity by getting a group of buddies together for bareknuckle fights. She liked the film, noting how the violence spiraled out of control and the main character found redemption with a woman in a familial relationship. She called the movie "Stiffed on speed," so I called Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novel Fight Club. He was several hundred pages deep into Faludi's book and already calling his story "the fictionalized version of Stiffed." There was a lot of love going around...