The romantic myth still exists that the arrival of a baby will bring a couple closer together. After the first few stunned and joyous moments at the new mother’s bedside staring with delight together at the new life the two of you have created, that just isn’t so. Whenever a couple or individual comes into … Continue reading Sex and Parenting →

My pocket dictionary offers more than a dozen definitions of romantic: impractical, unrealistic, preoccupied with love or the idealizing of love, ardent, passionate, fervent. Hopeless we know: impossible to accomplish, incompetent. Putting the best possible face on it, a hopeless romantic is a person who passionately strives to maintain an impractical ideal of love. Don … Continue reading Hopeless Romantic →