Bonding on Shine

One Cheese Sandwich With A Side of Naked

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In an effort to spend more time together, cut out expensive dinners/babysitters and get healthier, Rex and I now walk and brown bag it three days a week. On the one hand, I love it. We're facing this potentially scary economy together. We're both busting booty to get home on time for each other. It means he schedules meetings around me. I work in writing around him. We no longer just do what we do in a bubble, then bump like two ships in the night at the end of a long, exhausting day.

7 cheap date ideas

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A lighter wallet is no excuse to turn date night into a luxury. Get out of your sweatpants, put down the cold pizza, and check out these budget-friendly date ideas that will get you off the couch and into each other's pants.

A guy's take on why breastfeeding isn't that great (and why it is great) -- part one

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I know a guy commenting on breastfeeding is just asking for trouble. Raising ire be damned, I think it's a personal choice for a woman to breast feed and no one should be bullied into it, especially if said woman may not have the choice. My wife was such a person, a woman ostracized for her...

What 18 years of friendship will do for you

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My friend Rod, who I have known for 18 years--can you believe that? It doesn't seem right, that I've been alive for way more than 18 years--is leaving tomorrow afternoon, after staying with me for a full week. On the one hand, yay! I get my house back and my days back and the...

Surprising ways to bond with your partner (that don't involve mud wrestling)

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Maybe mud wrestling or nude volleyball is a tad extreme (or depending on what kind of couple you are, the answer to all your problems!?), but life being as stressful as it is, blah, blah, blah, it helps to remember that relationships take as much work as everything else in your life.