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Why Do We Fight? Looking Beyond the Ego

I’ve been told since childhood that men have great difficulty admitting when they are wrong. Learning to say “sorry” often and with apparent sincerity is, I have been told, a prerequisite to getting married. The model is that women complain and men are stubborn and apathetic. Many lover’s quarrels can, the thinking continues, be reduced to “woman has problem with man’s action, man disagrees, woman complains, sees it again and takes issue, fight ensues.” Tempers and emotions will escalate until one partner decides to step up, admit they were wrong, and make amends in a calm and … read more

A Weird Kind of Vampirism And Other Menstrual Myths

Many years ago, my ex-husband’s grandmother explained me how she could not understand why her grand-son in his teenager years was so infatuated with that girl… she reckoned in New Caledonia a woman will put a few drops of her menstrual blood in a man’s drink to make him fall in love. Ewww, that’s disgusting!

I remembered that story as I was listening to the radio. They were talking about celebrities weird fan gifts and Enrique Iglesias said he received a used tampon. My friend and I just looked at each other and just wondered why on earth would you do … read more

Essential Life Lesson: Over is Right, Under is Wrong

We all have those little things that seemed to annoy the hell out of us… One thing that really bothers me when I go to the toilets is to find the toilet roll put up the wrong way!  My boyfriend does it, my kids do it, my ex-husband does it…  At first I thought it was because I am left handed and right handed people do not seem to have the same logic as me.

Thanks to the Internet, and for the people who have to argue with me about it, I finally found proof that I was right and someone … read more