Blame nanny for cheating mate?

04/14/2010

BOYS WHO ARE REARED BY A NANNY, giving them a woman other than Mommy in their lives, may expect to have more than a wife in their beds.
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Training for marriage required

04/07/2010

YOU CAN’T LEGISLATE LOVE, but with divorce rates soaring some are pushing for mandatory pre-marital counseling. We take training and a test before we get a driver’s license and get behind the wheel, so why not prepare for that most serious step: a walk down the aisle … to heaven or hell?
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Your husband, my affair

03/31/2010

ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR, and we are dealing with male animals who want all the fruits of their jungle. “Me Jane, you Tarzan” is OK for breeding purposes, but today, with wealthy, pampered celebrities like John Edwards and Tiger Woods, we are seeing Tarzans with hungry eyes for sexual sampling on a major scale.
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Hey grandpa! Ready to die?

03/24/2010

OLD PEOPLE SHOULD COMMIT SUICIDE, insists British author Martin Amis in a Sunday Times of London interview, suggesting having “euthanasia booths on street corners, where elderly people can end their lives with a martini and a medal.”
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Recession-style love means divorce

03/10/2010

THERE ARE COUPLES staying together because they don’t have enough assets to share in a divorce, but for others love recession-style means splitsville.
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Seeds of suicide sown in childhood

03/03/2010

THE RECENT SUICIDE OF A TEENAGE SON OF FRIENDS prompts me to share the opinions and advice of psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts who believe the seeds of suicide are sown in childhood and are reaped after a final harvest of isolation from loved ones and hope, leading to self-destruction.
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No alibis! You must exercise!

02/24/2010

STOP WIMPERING. CUT OUT THE PHONEY EXCUSES. You know you must exercise to some degree if you want to remain alive. Walking is wonderful and you must do it every day, but there are ways you can sneak life-enhancing exercise into your everyday chores.
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Hope dies last, said Studs

02/17/2010

AUTHOR STUDS TERKEL, WHO DIED AT 96, lived through the Great Depression and said the lessons to be learned were: Don’t blame yourself; turn to others; take part in the community; and the big boys are not that bright. Terkel wrote Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.
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Why not marry for money?

02/10/2010

IT IS ALMOST VALENTINE’S DAY and the emphasis is on love, love, love. FOR SINGLE WOMEN LOOKING FOR MARRIAGE, perhaps money, money, money should at least share in the search for Mr. Right.
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Is your lover cheating on you?

02/03/2010

A FRIEND JUST PHONED, sobbing and desperate, because her husband admitted he’d been having an affair with a married nurse he met at his doctor’s office. And he confided they had been cheating on their mates for more than a year.
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