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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(July 14) -- Not only are Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston back together and engaged, but Alaska's most famous young lovers vow to get it right this time. The pair who were thrust into the spotlight when her mom made a run for the U.S. vice presidency tell Us Weekly magazine they will seek marriage counseling and abstain from sex during their engagement. They already have a son, Tripp, and said they hope to tie the knot within six weeks. Seeing Palin, 19, Johnston, 20, and cherubic 18-month-old Tripp dressed up in matching white outfits for a family portrait -- albeit on a magazine cover -- ...
Only one week after word leaked of Al and Tipper's plans to split, the Gore's eldest daughter is making news for her own looming divorce. The inconvenient timing is enough to leave Surge Desk asking: Is divorce contagious? All research points to "maybe" -- but the Gore family's double-split is likely much more complicated than the simple transmission of irreconcilable differences. People magazine is reporting that Karenna Gore Schiff, 36, and her husband, Drew, have been separated for several months. The couple, who've been married for 12 years, apparently participated in counseling before ...
The current issue of The New Yorker comes with a startling revelation: marriage counseling has its roots in eugenics! In "Fixed: The rise of marriage therapy, and other dreams of human betterment," writer Jill Lepore tells us about Paul Popenoe, "the father of marriage counseling." In his heyday of the 1950s, Popenoe was known as "Mr. Marriage" and his Los Angeles-based American Institute of Family Relations was the country's leading marriage clinic. ...
(Dec. 9) -- So Tiger Woods is very much in the doghouse, and also in couples therapy, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. A gossip columnist for the paper reported Dec. 2 that the golf star and his wife, Elin Nordegren, had entered into "intense marriage counseling," with a therapist leading the two through several sessions a day in their Windermere, Fla., mansion. One wonders, of course, how the steady stream of revelations about Woods' alleged infidelities (seven, eight, nine purported mistresses, and counting) and assorted peccadilloes (in case you somehow missed it, one of the more recent ...
A happy marriage is a wonderful thing. Too bad it's wasted on the happily married. ...
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