The most memorable doughnut of my life was from the Do-Rite that used to be right around the corner from Petterino’s. It was the morning of my divorce. My soon-to-be ex-husband and I were meeting for coffee before walking across Randolph to the Daley Center, where we would kick our three-year marriage to the curb. […]
Tag: marriage
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Why get married?
On commitment, ultimatums, and masturbating into your wife’s used panties
Posted inNews & Politics
No complaints
Roosevelt Myles spent 28 years in prison, only to be released into a world in lockdown. He’s happier than he’s been in a long time.
Posted inCity Life
When ‘I do’ quickly becomes ‘you can’t’
How engaged couples and wedding industry professionals are coping with corona-related cancellations.
Posted inNews & Politics
‘The big house and the picket fence’
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
Posted inColumns & Opinion
‘Help, I’m a real-life 47-year-old virgin!’
Dan offers advice for losing it in middle age, handling potentially destructive secrets, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Seams from Scott McClanahan’s marriage
The Sarah Book, the author’s latest, is a “fictional” account of his personal experiences.
Posted inArts & Culture
Kate Bolick’s new book surveys the past, present, and future of the unmarried woman
And, in the process, determines that “spinsters” should no longer be sad
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When your partner is ‘one of those women’
Dan Savage advises a husband frustrated with female sexuality, a lesbian not attracted to transwomen, and a gay guy whose wiring has his insecure partner feeling inadequate.
Posted inBlogs
Spinsters of the world unite!
A new book surveys the past, present, and future of the unmarried woman.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A cuckold’s dilemma
Dan Savage advises a cuckold with a quandary, a girl in love but longing for an open relationship, and a married gay male with a dilemma of his own.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Does a lifetime of lousy sex legitimize cheating?
Dan tells us what he would do if faced with a lifetime of lousy sex, and offers tips on how to reignite a sex life without killing your husband.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Uncle Dan’s grab bag
Dan Savage offers advice and PSAs on safe dildo use, the dangers of smoking, navigating a first three-way, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
I’m poly and happy—do I have to come out?
Dan Savage on closeted poly folks, exes and open relationships, and a threeway-or the-highway fiance.
Posted inBlogs
Married . . . with chagrin on USA network’s Satisfaction
A show about life after marriage is really whole lot of male fantasy.