Who Wears the Pants in a Relationship Matters – Especially if You’re a Woman

Who Wears the Pants in a Relationship Matters – Especially if You’re a Woman

By Laina Bay-Cheng, The Conversation When it comes to power in romantic relationships, men are often cast as dominant and women as deferential. But working against this are caricatures of domineering women with their “hen-pecked husbands” and “whipped boyfriends.” At the same time, popular culture is replete with representations of striving and self-serving women – […]

Divorce and Foreclosure

Divorce and Foreclosure

By Victoria Falk What do you do when “I do” turns into “I don’t,” and you can no longer stand to be in the presence of the person that you imagined you would spend the rest of your life with? You vowed to be together “…for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness […]

The Least Romantic Valentine’s Day Ever: Why Financial Discussions Just Might Save Your Relationships

The Least Romantic Valentine’s Day Ever: Why Financial Discussions Just Might Save Your Relationships

By Janet Howard On the list of best Valentine’s Day activities, talking about money ranks just below washing the dishes and cleaning the floor, but unlike those household chores, discussing the way you feel about your finances just might save your relationship. You might not want to lead with those money matters — it is […]

January Is Divorce Month

January Is Divorce Month

By Linda N. The United States ranks as the country with the sixth highest divorce rate in the world, with an average of over 2 million divorces per year, calculated at the rate of 200 dissolved marriages per hour, granted every 13 seconds.  Did you also know that individual states and not federal law apply […]

Stress is Contagious in Relationships – Here’s What you can do to Support Your Partner and Boost Your own Health During the Holidays and Beyond

Stress is Contagious in Relationships – Here’s What you can do to Support Your Partner and Boost Your own Health During the Holidays and Beyond

By Rosie Shrout, The Conversation With the flurry of shopping, spending money and traveling to see family, stress can feel inevitable during the holidays. You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress […]

An Exclusive Chat with Carol Maraj

An Exclusive Chat with Carol Maraj

By Victoria Falk, CAW Exclusive Trinidadian-born, Carol Maraj, is the mother of world-renowned rap artist Onika Tanya Maraj – Petty, most known as Nicki Minaj. Although Ms. Maraj is more easily recognizable when seen in public beside her famous daughter, she has indeed developed a name for herself, in her own right. Ms. Carol Maraj […]