Sunday, September 07, 2008

DON'T TAKE A SIDE!

But if you do, you can now do it in public. Here's a new "crowdsourcing" tool that allows couples put a disagreement before the general public and allow friends and perfect strangers to take sides. Wouldn't recommend SideTaker as proper dispute resolution tool for couples, but it certainly is an interesting approach in the age of open everything.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Not Exactly in the spirit of a truly loving relationship...but worth a chuckle:

40TH Wedding Anniversary

A married couple in their early 60s was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table. She said, 'For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.' The wife answered, 'Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband.' The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands. The husband thought for a moment: 'Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.' The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish. So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!...the husband became 92 years old.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful bastards should remember fairies are female.....

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Commuter Love...can it work?

According to recent statistics even more couples are engaged in long distance relationships

The most recent U.S. Census in 2006 showed that about 3.8 million Americans are in commuter marriages, a 30% increase since 2000. While many believe that technology can help lessen the distance faced by commuter couples face, their is no evidence that this is the case.

"...while innovations like e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging, Twitter and Second Life have increased the volume of Internet chatter, they haven't necessarily made long-distance relationships any more successful, Guldner says. Communication's quality, he says, has always meant more than its frequency.
"Information technology has definitely led people to believe that long-distance relationships will work more than in the past," says Guldner. "Whether that's true is the big question we're dealing with right now."

See the full Forbes article addressing the challenge of long distance love and technology here.