Archives for Money & Relationships - Page 13
Gay Marriage: Love & Money
"Marriage is not about love. It's about a love that can bear children." -- Todd Akin, Republican Congressman from Missouri What is marriage? We like to talk about it here…
Separate but equal?
I met my boyfriend last year and we really hit it off like a house on fire, the whole "love at first sight" thing. I can't get enough of this…
Partners and Money Attitudes
My partner, Surfgirl, and I come from quite different backgrounds. She came from a home that had a nanny/housekeeper and even rode to school in a limo for a time.…
Straight Partnerships: Saying No to Marriage
About a year ago, I started reading an anonymous family finance blog called Tired but happy. At first, I thought it was written by a gay woman because she referred…
In Vitro Fertilization: Lesbians Buy a Family
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." -- George Santayana So it all started last week with a payment of $7,300. They make you pay upfront. No refund for any…
Money & Relationships
"Money is not something we ever discuss. Talk of money is like speaking of bodily functions at the dinner table." -- Novelist Elizabeth George in A Traitor to Memory In…
Two Brains are better for Saving Money
Surfgirl and I are bringing her sister and niece to visit us for a week and while they are with us we plan on doing quite a few things, mostly…
Money and Mates: Q&A with Pam & Kate
This week, Queercents interviews Pam and Kate in North Carolina. They love to dress up, eat out and never fight about finances. Pam is the publisher of Pam's House Blend…
Money & Mates: Q&A with Suzanne & Wendy
Suzanne and Wendy are bloggers that I have read for a few months and truly enjoy taking a peek into their lives from day to day. This day, they allow…
The Baby-Making Business
"Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what…