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Category Archives: Marriage

A Marriage Never Consummated

Sunday, August 7, 2011

 
JEREMY writes:
I recently read several posts and commentary about sexual harmony in marriage on your website and I thought that my experiences might provide some insights.
My wife and I are in our late twenties and have been married for nearly five years.

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More on Sexual Harmony in Marriage

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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MARIA writes:
I feel there are parallels between the situation of your reader who no longer finds her husband desirable and my own. I am also in my late twenties and married five years.
My husband, two months after our second child was born, confessed to twice, on separate occasions while I was visiting relatives, arranging a rendezvous with [...]

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Advice for a Neglected Husband

Monday, August 1, 2011

 
ADVICE COLUMNISTS are shills for the feminist-dominated psychotherapy industry. No matter what a reader’s problem is they invariably recommend professional therapy. Here is a columnist who tells a man who has sex with his wife as little as once every six months that he should get counseling for himself. This man is supposed to crawl in a [...]

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Lies about Premarital Sex in America

Monday, March 7, 2011

 
THE latest big news regarding marriage is that premarital sex was always normal in America. That’s right. If you thought there was something called the sexual revolution, you were wrong.
In today’s New York Times, Ross Douthat, the “conservative” columnist, writes about the impossibility of a “traditionalist utopia” in which the only sex is married sex. He states:
No [...]

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And, Yet Another Woman Writer Gloats

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

 
DOROTHY writes: 
I read this article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago about a woman writer who happily spent part of her honeymoon alone and it stays in my mind. I cannot stop thinking about it. It is very sad to me. But the woman who wrote it is happy. I am astounded that she [...]

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More on Game

Sunday, February 27, 2011

  
HERE ARE more interesting comments from readers regarding “Game,” which many readers say is a nihilistic, anti-Christian, hedonistic form of manipulation of women. There is no question that it often is. We are all agreed on that. However, one reader adds another impassioned defense of Game and advocates a Christian interpretation of it that rejects hedonism and recognizes the moral responsibility of [...]

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When Game Is About Love

Saturday, February 26, 2011

 
YOUNGFOGEY writes:
It seems to me that a portion of your readers have fallen into some common misconceptions about Game.
First, as I wrote, at the core of Game is acting like a man. That means being aggressive, that means having a plan, that means pursuing what you desire, living with honor and, I think (as a [...]

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More Thoughts on the Contemptuous Spouse

Friday, February 25, 2011

 
MARIANNE writes:
Your blog continues to be fascinating and I am a big fan.  
But I’m writing to express a concern, and I hope you will not take it the wrong way, because I truly admire so much of what you have to say. My concern is this: I think it’s a mistake to encourage a man [...]

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Why Has This Wife Rebelled?

Thursday, February 24, 2011

 
YOUNGFOGEY writes:
What struck me most about your reader’s note in this entry was the admission that this guy’s wife holds him in contempt. My guess is that she doesn’t despise him because he wants children and she doesn’t. She probably despises him because he has been neutered by the culture, offers her very little in [...]

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A Sterile Marriage

Thursday, February 24, 2011

 
A READER writes:
Dear Professor Wood, 
Thank you for your teaching. Your site shows the young generation of women and men, my nieces and nephews and the children of my friends, a path which they see rarely on campus or on the job. One young man whom you influenced was recently baptized (Eastern Orthodox) at age thirty. 
You [...]

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Lugging Children Through the Shallows of Banal Love

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

 
TODAY’S journalists are so quick to provide every mind-numbingly boring detail about their chaotic personal lives and so upfront about how indifferent they are to their children. This writer, in his description of his recent “courtship” in The New York Times, talks about his two children from two different women as if they are luggage stowed in the backseat, which presumably is what they [...]

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Cuomo at Church

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

 
NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is divorced, has been living with his girlfriend, the Food Network celebrity Sandra Lee. Under Catholic canon law, that makes him guilty of ”public concubinage” and he is not entitled to take communion. While many thousands of Catholics appear to be unaware of canon law, Cuomo cannot plead ignorance. As reported in The New York Times, Edward [...]

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A Woman Who Speaks the Truth

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

 
I’VE OFTEN wondered why more people who have divorced their decent spouses don’t later publicly regret their selfishness and tell the whole world just how stupid and thoughtless they were. Probably because repentance hurts or because many people who initiate divorce are too far gone for self-reflection. Here, however, is just that: a woman who has devoted a blog to [...]

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Abortion and Unwed Motherhood

Monday, February 21, 2011

 
TRAVEL THROUGHOUT America, into small towns, or big suburbs or dense cities, and you will find the phenomenon of single motherhood. One of the most obvious developments of recent years is the lower middle-class white girl who comes from an intact or relatively intact family and who ends up as a single mother. She finds herself [...]

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Brett Stevens on the Economic Value of Chastity

Friday, February 18, 2011

 
BRETT STEVENS, at the website Amerika, argues that the loss of chastity as a social ideal is part of a larger denigration of hierarchy. As such, it is connected to economic decline of the middle class. He writes:
Do we want each sexual act to have meaning, or should we remove context? Do we want a nation of equally [...]

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