A Mugging and a Gun Down my Throat—and Away Goes My Masculinity
—I’ve never been the type of foolhardy person who believed that being a male made me invincible. I’ve always locked my doors when in certain metropolitan areas, and I knew which streets to avoid...
View ArticleWhat Getting Married is Teaching Me About Friendship
—When my soon-to-be-husband proposed almost a year ago (on the Harry Potter Studio Tour while outfitted in Gryffindor robes because, you know, HE GETS ME), I knew that getting engaged and planning a...
View ArticleWould I Rewrite My Wedding Vows?
I just finished watching “Father of the Bride,” not the original, but the remake with Steve Martin. I love everything about this movie. The house is charming, the story is sweet, and in my opinion,...
View ArticleSongs NOT to Play at Your Wedding [Podcast]
In this episode, The Kvetching Professor talks about some songs you would certainly NOT want played for your first dance right after you’ve said, “I do.” You know, songs like “Who’s Sorry Now?” and...
View ArticleSpending Intelligently: Wedding Planning
On December 8, I officially proposed to the woman that makes my heart sing. She said yes, just as she had every day since we met. I chose this date, because it marked our one year anniversary, and a...
View ArticleNormal Intimacy
It was the only real bachelor party I ever went to. There had been wives, girlfriends, and even one mom for a short time at mine. We hung around my friend’s house, drinking, playing ping-pong, and...
View ArticleBaby Boy
Bouncing Baby My wife and I have always savored our privacy with the most intimate family milestones. We opted out of having bridesmaids and groomsmen at our wedding, and when baby time approached, we...
View ArticlePara Siempra Comienza Hoy (Forever Begins Today)
I don’t really have regrets, but I wish I’d seen more of the world. I can’t complain, life has been good to me, but there are so many places I wish to go, so many things that I wish to see. So when my...
View ArticleMy Cup Runneth Over
A wedding, a workshop, the White House. What do they all have in common? They were part of Labor Day weekend, 2019. I am typing these words sitting at my friend Mitch’s dining room table in Falls...
View Article7 Reasons to Date an Autistic Man
— I wanted to write some kind of x-number of reasons to date an Asperger’s guy piece (a form of autism). The problem is, I’ve only dated one, I’m still dating him, and as long as he proposes before all...
View ArticleStop the Whataboutism in Your Marriage
If you’re in a relationship, especially a marriage, you have a built-in scapegoat. The tendency to focus on what your partner is doing (or not doing) is an easy trap to fall into. Anytime a complaint...
View ArticleWhat Happens at Weddings…
…is usually hysterical. It’s not a wedding if you don’t have some weird stuff happen. And weird stuff happens at everyone’s wedding – even if they won’t admit it. Or maybe it’s that they just didn’t...
View ArticleMarital Bliss
— I went to a wedding this weekend. It was the first I’d attended in almost 20 years, and sitting there with 100 strangers, listening to the carefully written vows, enjoying the unique stagecraft of a...
View ArticleAsk Dr. NerdLove: How Do We Stop Fighting Over Our Wedding?
— Hey Doc, Long time reader, first time writing in. My fiancé (22) and I (23) have been together for a lovely 5 years, have never had a single fight and have been fairly good at communicating. Our...
View ArticleThe In Between
— The happiest moments in life come in so many different forms. Your child is born. Your partner says “I do”. A promotion in your career. The lower points have the same level of scattered diversity....
View ArticleDispatches from the Western Front: Slip Sliding Away
The Agenda is No Agenda At dinner the other night, I looked up at our family calendar. What I mean is, I really looked at it. Here’s what I saw: the festive green shamrock-bordered March placard was...
View ArticleMy Big Fat Gay COVID Wedding
My partner and I were supposed to get married this May. Because of travel bans and gathering limitations, we had no choice but to cancel our wedding. We were disheartened by the uncertainty of when we...
View ArticleThe 4th Wedding Anniversary (That Wasn’t)
Yesterday would have been lucky-number 13. My wife and I celebrating 13 years of marital bliss. Only we didn’t. Because we stopped at 9. In large part because the final couple of years were anything...
View ArticleStory Update: Ten Years Later, Carl Reflects on His Wedding and His...
. . In his video, he shared that it took a heartbreaking queer movie to get his devoutly Christian parents to even welcome a potential partner into the family home. A decade later, a lot has changed....
View Article3 Ways Men Can Use Virtual Reality to Add Magic to Their Wedding Day
Weddings are considered one of the most memorable events a person will ever experience. They consume lots of energy to ensure that they go off without a hitch. The stress involved causes many brides...
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