Dr. Christine B. Whelan is an author, professor and speaker. She and her husband, Peter, and their dictator cats, Chairman Meow and Evita Purron, live in Pittsburgh. Her book "Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women" is available in stores or at the Halo Store.

	January 5th, 2012 Lost and Found The road of return to the Catholic faith I went to Mass every Sunday with my father throughout my childhood, and even said evening prayers with him until I was a teenager. Then ...
	April 7th, 2011 Making Time For Love Struggling to show affection through being If you asked my husband, I think he'd say that my most irritating quality is my desire to just do "one more thing" before bed, ...
	March 19th, 2011 Virtues Big and Small I usually write about news events and the latest research, but virtue is all around us -- and our best chance of character development comes in our relationships with our families. So here's your to-do ...
	March 12th, 2011 The Virtue of Fun A recent study suggests that some 30% of Americans has trouble relaxing and putting work aside to enjoy vacation - and a handful of ...
	March 9th, 2011 Divorce Ceremonies When you plan a wedding, you might select the specific readings or poems to commemorate your love at the ceremony. You'll invite friends and family ...
	March 4th, 2011 Time to Unplug? A while back Tara Parker-Pope wrote a New York Times piece about the high toll of technology over-dependence that's worth mentioning: With immediate access ...
	March 3rd, 2011 Who Are You? (an excerpt from Generation WTF) Why Understanding Your Values Is the First Step to Success What are your values? And do you live them every day? These may seem like simple questions, but some honest introspection can lead to big changes in your day-to-day choices about work, volunteering, money and ...
	March 2nd, 2011 The Opinions of Others A few weeks back, I blogged about new research that found, when searching for a relationship partner, we tend to gravitate toward people who ...
	February 24th, 2011 The Virtues of a BFF When I was a 'tween and teenager, I had two best friends. The three of us were our own little clique -- inseparable and bonded ...
	February 23rd, 2011 Look for a Partner Your Friends Will Like Opposites attract, right? Wrong. It's one of the myths marriage and family sociologists love to shatter: While Hollywood has romantic notions of maids in Manhattan finding ...
	February 19th, 2011 Trying, Not Trying and OK Either Way? Childbearing outside marriage is on the rise, with some 40% of all births to unwed mothers. And more than half of unplanned pregnancies occur among ...
	February 17th, 2011 Generation WTF Wise, tenacious, and fearless self-help How do I stop procrastinating? Where do I find a meaningful relationship? How do I ace a ...
	February 16th, 2011 Trust Your Hormones Here's a plot of a future James Bond movie: The evil female character is lulled into trusting Bond after he spikes her drink with oxytocin, ...
	February 14th, 2011 Why Women’s Magazines May Be Harmful to Your Relationship Writing about the repetition in men's magazines earlier this week made me look back at my research on men's and women's magazines from ...
	February 9th, 2011 Superficial Inadequacies Gawker recently reported that Men's Health magazine was recycling cover stories - and selling readers nearly identical covers - with messages of physical inadequacy. Men's Health has four topics that it routinely features, ...
	February 5th, 2011 You’re Not Too Busy Think you're too busy to read a good book, have a quiet hour with your spouse or go to the gym five days a week? You're not, you just choose to spend too much of ...
	February 3rd, 2011 Cold Cash and Values Money talks in relationships Relationships experts often tell young couples that as things get "serious" it's important to have some conversations about money. But what exactly should you talk ...
	February 2nd, 2011 The New Gender Gap For years I've written about the increase in women's college and professional school graduation rates. But never have I seen the data so starkly ...
	January 29th, 2011 Spare Us the Halfalogue Scientific American has a fun podcast on one of the more irksome elements of modern life: Hearing half of the inane conversation of a ...
	January 26th, 2011 Sending a Message You Don’t Care I don't have a BlackBerry or an iPhone. I know, I know, it's absurd that I've gone this long without the pacifier-tether that is a ...