by Harriet Hairston
I read a recent article on CNN.com that made my blood boil.  I couldn’t even think of a better title than the one they provided in their “Mate Debate” section.  The question seems like a no brainer to someone in my position:  happily married with children.  But apparently, it is an issue with many couples–both married and single–today.
Below you will find some quotables from the original article:
“It’s realistic that some people can mate for life in the same sense that some people can play the Beethoven …

by Tara Pringle Jefferson
If you want to put on some sexy music, you have the classics – “Sexual Healing,” “Between the Sheets,” “If This World Were Mine,” etc. If you’re a little younger, you might consider “Forever My Lady” and “I’ll Make Love to You” to be tops on your list.
My husband hipped me to a lot of “love music” when we hooked up. (Hence the two babies.) Some songs were already extremely familiar due to the radio stations playing them 82 times a day.
But some had me …

by Aja Dorsey Jackson
I had a few reservations about bringing this up given the fact that the topic is not quite family friendly. Yet although it’s an issue that publicly is rarely discussed or tiptoed around like a dirty little secret, in every online community that I am a part of, whether it be a mommy’s discussion board or a fitness community, inevitably the conversation comes up: “My husband is addicted to porn”. The frequency with which this becomes the topic of conversation lets me know that the “dirty little …

As a black psychologist, I question how we can help turn our collective pain, as black men and black women, into something that works for the greater good of the community…

(Yesterday we ran a married man’s point of view on Facebook and it was a very hot topic. Well… we have a lot of single readers and we didn’t want to leave them out so today we’re running a single woman’s point of view. Check it out and let us know what you think.)
by Cherise Adkins
It’s hard enough navigating the single world as a woman living in 2009. With all this new technology, it seems the excitement of romance is dying with every push of a button or click of …

On Facebook, my wife is NOT my friend. I un-friended her about two months ago. Not only did I not tell her what I did, but once she discovered we were no longer connected, I ignored her request to become my friend once more…

By Aja Dorsey Jackson
Before my husband and I got married, I remember going back and forth for a few days with myself over what I wanted as my married name. At the time my husband told me he pretty much didn’t care. I ended up dropping my maiden name completely and taking my husband’s last name as my own based primarily upon the fact that I like the way my middle name sounds with my first name.
Now if you are actually looking at my name under the title of this …

By Tara Pringle Jefferson
This weekend, in honor of Sweetest Day (yes, Lamar, I’m fully aware that is a country, Midwestern holiday and no one else outside of my neck of the woods - or at least the Great Lakes - even knows what it is…lol), my husband and I went to a local restaurant to celebrate.
After we took our seats in the waiting area, a hoard of high school kids, dressed up in their homecoming outfits, poured in. The girls shivered in their pretty-but-too-skimpy-for-mid-October dresses, …

I was flipping through an old issue of O magazine the other day and came across Oprah’s interview with Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former…

by Tara Pringle Jefferson
When it comes to topic of marriage, everyone wants to put their two cents in on what keeps a marriage strong. For all those with upcoming nuptials (Jonesi, I’m looking at you!), let’s weigh in to help them out.
What’s the best piece of marriage advice that you’ve heard, or that you could give? In other words, what do you wish someone had told you before you walked down the aisle (that would have saved you a lot of headache)?
Mine is quite simple: Love your spouse as he …