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Opinion: Extricate selves from friends’ withering wedlock
1+ week, 2+ day ago (864+ words) Winnipeg -10" C, Windy DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My closest girlfriend is getting ready to leave her husband, and he doesn't know it. My husband is also friends with her hubby, and I feel guilty as sin keeping the secret. I broke…...
Opinion: Don’t panic and dive into serious commitments
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (704+ words) Winnipeg -10" C, Windy DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm 31, but an old soul. I have never actually lived with a guy, but I admit I do tend to dither about things. Now my man is encouraging me to take the leap and…...
Opinion: You’re definitely not in marriage country here
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (709+ words) Winnipeg -10" C, Windy DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm a university student studying agriculture. I will inherit my parents' grain farm someday and I couldn't be happier about it. But I told my latest girlfriend about this, and she said she wouldn't…...
Opinion: Prankster partner’s bedroom buffoonery a bust
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (597+ words) Winnipeg -10" C, Windy DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My new boyfriend is a practical joker. At first, I thought it was fun " but then nothing was ever aimed at me. We were having a lot of laughs, admittedly at other people's expense,…...
The legal and financial pitfalls of the muted marriage killer, 'silent divorce"
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (779+ words) Winnipeg -1" C, Blowing snow Divorce may call to mind shouting matches and seething emotions. But in some marriages, silence and suppression are the defining traits. So-called silent divorce " a new term for an age-old phenomenon " describes when couples grow emotionally…...
200 love letters found in a Nashville home tell the story of a couple's courtship during WWII
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (860+ words) The letters by William Raymond Whittaker and Jane Dean were found in a Nashville home that had belonged to Jane and her siblings. They were donated in 2016 to the Metro Nashville Archives. Whittaker, who went by Ray, was from New…...
Relationship experts and couples say romance doesn't need grand gestures to thrive
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (822+ words) Doing something romantic for Valentine's Day does not need to involve a heart-shaped box of chocolates, roses or an atypically expensive dinner, according to relationship experts. In fact, therapists encourage couples craving intimacy and a deeper connection to focus less…...
Committed, conniving housewife will stop at nothing to climb the social ladder
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (386+ words) Winnipeg -22" C, Cloudy with wind Can a cover make a book? Liverpudlian M. K. Oliver, a new writer who openly confesses that he was less-than-addicted to reading as a youngster, here tackles the daunting task of crafting a book that meets the…...
U.S. Supreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (352+ words) Winnipeg -9" C, Cloudy Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell…...
Opinion: Solid family plan takes time and commitment
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (637+ words) Winnipeg 14" C, Cloudy DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My very new boyfriend of less than a month, who's in his mid-30s, just heard from his ex-girlfriend that she thinks she's pregnant with his child. He asked her for solid proof " like a note…...