The Bunny Hutch is a fine Virginia Beach spot to take the little ones to meet adorable animals. We support the fine work its conservation wing does. The Bunny Hutch is not, though, the sort of place anyone feels compelled to return to week after week. Yes, it's the home of Junior, "America's Biggest Bunny," but frequent visits could result in ...
Perhaps you and your wife woke up after a three-day honeymoon at Busch Gardens and realized you hardly know each other. Perhaps you both came to the conclusion, after a few years of earnestly trying, that you are simply not right for each other. No hard feelings, no bruised egos — you are both just ready to move on. You may ...
Simply siring a child is far different than fatherhood. A few minute's fun is nothing compared to a lifetime of worry, attention, and lame jokes. Being an involved father — a Dad worthy of the corny coffee mug or desk plaque — has always been a challenge. Try these 11 time-tested ideas. Impasta Some divorced Dads suddenly feel like they are part-time fathers. They ...
Because we live in the here and now, we tend to think marriage now is what marriage has always been. That is not true, as pointed out in a Huffington Post article that reviews marriage historically. For much of humanity's time on earth, marriage was a business arrangement; make kids, find food, acquire wealth. Once you free yourself from thinking ...
Good parents provide homes they intend to empty. If you did a good job parenting, your adult children visit but do not stay. Your kids are never too old to be beyond your reach. What about when they’re high schoolers ready to study abroad though? What if that time away from the nest coincides with your parenting time? The Benefits ...
How good are you at negotiating? Most people tend to exaggerate their own negotiating abilities, from presidents on down to next door neighbors. In getting to an equitable (we didn't say equal) divorce settlement, negotiating is key. Equitable Versus Equal Imagine you and your wife have three children. Imagine you are all staring at five cookie jars tucked away on top ...
Adults have the exam dream so often, its shorthand is recognizable with just those words: “the exam dream.” In the exam dream, you wake to find you are back in high school and confronting a final exam for which you are completely unprepared. Maybe the subject is astrophysics, or calculus, or ... perhaps it is a child custody evaluation, and it's ...
Antonio found his wife's old love letters. Unfortunately for his wife Rosa, she had not written the amorous notes to Antonio, but to her lover. Antonio sued for divorce. At the time, says Vintage News1, Antonio was 99, Rosa was 96, the affair had taken place 60 years earlier, and the couple had been married for 77 years. Antonio's and Rosa's ...
blink-182's song, Stay Together For The Kids, rose to #7 on the punk charts in its debut year, 2001. The video is searing and disturbing, mirroring the emotional peril kids in divorcing families feel as a wrecking ball destroys their home even as the band sings on. The lyrics speak of a child's helplessness watching parents who, “Rather than fix the ...