In my last post, you learned about mediation from former attorney Brette Sember. Today Brette has graciously allowed us to read a free excerpt from her book The No-Fight Divorce Book. Here’s the excerpt from a section about getting in the right mindset for mediation: When you begin mediation, things will move more smoothly for you if you have the right...

I know, I know, you came to this site because I write about how to have a happy marriage and not about how to have a happy divorce. Still, not all marriages can be saved. If yours is one of the ones that can’t, I still want you to find happiness. You deserve it. You don’t deserve to be mired in anger, resentment, fear and other types of negativity. You...

We were at the emergicenter. I was holding my kid over this tiny little sink and she was throwing up dark, milky, sweet-smelling gunk. “What IS that?” my husband asked, one eye raised. I knew exactly what it was. But I didn’t want anyone else to know. After all, we’d just made a big, fat mess of the place, a mess that the nice nurse was going to have to...

AKA The Karma Project For all of the people who told me that you love the Karma posts and that you want me to keep them coming: Here you go! For all of the people who really don’t like the Karma posts but were too sheepish to tell me: I’ll get back to the usual marriage stuff right after this post. No worries. This story is about me waiting in line. If you’ve...

IGB Dan Savage at Windsor – Is sexuality in women more fluid than in men? A woman feels it's more likely for a female to have fluid sexuality than it is for men. From: dansavage Views: 8787 102 ratings Time: 01:53 More...

Dan Savage at the Kessler Theater (TEXAS) – My father is friends with his hooker on Facebook. A girl asks Dan how she should go about dealing with the fact that her father is friends with a woman who charges for sex on Facebook. From: dansavage Views: 10370 200 ratings Time: 03:53 More...