Congratulations! She said yes! At least one person does not consider you a waste of a human being, a vacuous oxygen consuming degrader of beauty and truth on this planet. She said yes. What? Oh, you knew she was going to say yes. As a matter of...

Along the Ether this week looks at advice columnist Cary Tennis's response to a young woman who is seriously dating and seriously talking about marriage with her beau. He, perhaps simply laying out his cards, explains to her that he is afraid to get...

I have always been one who does it by myself. I "figure" it out. I don't ask for directions generally and when I do, it is in a language I do not understand. When I carefully ask the patient stranger for help, he (or she) traditionally proceeds to...

In the previous post, I referred to a number of questions that one might want to ask oneself before one takes the ultimate plunge (also known as marriage) with that person one is dating. A frequent reader, B, suggested that one question was a reference...

In past posts, I have outlined important conversations to have with your loved one before taking the plunge into engagement and presumably a marriage to follow. Equally important are the conversations that one must have with oneself in determining if...