Divorce and Murder

In 1950s, the number of men killed by their wives in America was comparable to the number of women killed by their husbands. Since then, the number of men killed by their wives declined precipitously, while the number of women killed by their husbands remained approximately...

Reader Questions - Divorce, Getting Out of Debt, Restoring Credit

Question: I just finished paying off my credit cards thru credit counseling, bought a house. I then applied for credit card, got denied due to being in credit couseling. How long should I wait to re-apply again? In the mean time, what could i do to erased the credit...

Tea party woman doesn't believe women should have right to vote

Dinesh D'Souza is a Christian conservative who has been hostile to gays and atheists. He has also made a movie harshly critical of President Obama. D'Souza believes that Christianity is morally superior than the humanist beliefs that many gays and atheists possess. He...

The Dynamics of Modern Marriages

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Until recently, couples formed around promises of emotional exclusivity and social fidelity, uniqueness in each other’s mind and life, and (more common until the 1940s) virginity. Marriage was also a...

Time-limited Marriage: Solution to Cheating and Divorce?

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The ancient institution of monogamous marriage is ill-suited to the exigencies of modern Western civilization. People of both genders live and work longer (which renders monogamy impracticable); travel far...

IS KATIE HOLMES PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE . . .

When I saw Katie Holmes, looking like a cat that swallowed a canary, in her first public appearance after blind-siding her husband with a divorce petition that changes where he lives, publicly humiliates him, and seeks to take his parenting rights away, and I thought, there's...

Disincentivize Abuse. Prosecute False Advertising.

Yet another person I know is attempting to divorce a man who has been highly abusive to her. This woman has strong education in psychology, and she has dated this person for three years to ensure that he was a good person; then when they got married he turned into a brute and...

Shouldn’t you thank this slut for stealing the love of your life?

Don’t you think that it is way too easy to label as a slut the woman for whom your boyfriend or husband is choosing to leave you? Things happen, even in the most unexpected way. However, do they totally come from left field, or do they ultimately happen because you...

Republican tells women that being battered isn't that bad

Republicans and non-libertarian conservatives often don't like the fact that people can divorce. Some on the far religious rightwing, want to restrict the ability to divorce as much as possible, even ban it. If women are abused and battered, well, to them that is not as...

I Can’t Live Without Him/Her

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Dependence on other people is a kind of addiction and, therefore, fulfills important mental health functions. First, it is an organizing principle: it serves to explain behaviors and events within a...

Divorce as a Re-Distributive Mechanism and Wealth Transfer

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited""Even in modern times, in most cases husbands and wives differ in their potential for acquiring property. In separation of property, husbands and wives owning property and dealing with each other will be in...