husbands
Emotionally engaged
Written by Paul Coughlin
A recent study has toppled long-standing assumptions about what brings wives the greatest happiness. In their report “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven Nock showed that the most important factor in women’s marital happiness is neither money nor the division of housework, but rather their husbands’ emotional engagement.
Your spouse's greatest need
Written by Carol Heffernan
It often starts with something small. Maybe she arrives home from shopping to find that the kids aren’t in bed yet. She thought her husband would have realized that the family needed to get up early, so the kids needed to go to bed early.
The problem with nice guys
Written by Paul Coughlin
I’m fortunate. I got a handle on my fake niceness before it fatally wounded my marriage of 16 years.
For most of my adult life, I gave faux smiles and was dangerously passive for the same reason a squid squirts ink:
Of dirt and dollhouses
Written by Patrick Dunn
Many children dream of flying, but when my brother Chris was about 10, he was ready to take matters into his own hands. Armed with rudimentary carpentry skills and curiosity, he built a homemade hang-glider out of wood and trash bags.
A work in progress
Written by Daniel Guy
After dinner one evening, I noticed my wife wasn’t her usual cheerful self. “Is something wrong?” I asked.
“I could’ve really used your prayers last night.”
“Sorry. It slipped my mind. I was tired.”
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