There is some very good food for thought here. As a mom of six plus one arriving soon, with some limited outside support, the balance my husband and I have struck is: I take care of me and the baby, and my husband oversees the house and taking care of the other kids. Training your children to know how to do all the household stuff is so …

This is a really good piece and I think anybody who is married (or would like to be) could glean a lot from it.

It put me in mind, however, of something I have been thinking about for a long time with regards to marriage advice. This is not a problem with Tsh’s piece, but about marital advice in general. I haven’t been married 22 years, b…

Re: the postpartum tweets, I really think one of the great potential benefits of marriage is that it can teach men not to be slaves to their physical appetites, and women not to be slaves to their emotions.

I say "potential," though, because first a spouse has to be willing to accept that they aren't the center of the universe (and maybe …