Susan Patton never questions the norm that women should "marry up" -- and by extension, men should marry "down" -- on a variety of dimensions, including education, accomplishment and age. (Nor does she question the assumption that mate choice is universally heterosexual, but that is a topic for another debate.) Yet a thorough gender revolution means questioning such assumptions about how women (and men) select a life partner.
New initiatives that will help cohesion of family, community and collective social units will be integral in enabling those unable to find a life-partner to cope and have other life-meanings to pursue.
If you are married or have a financially dependent partner, you can apply for a joint life enhanced annuity which will continue to be paid to your partner if you die before them.
Is it smart to spend this crucial period building up a stable life: a promising job, a reliable partner, and an admirable assortment of kitchenware?
Tying up a partner's life online is among the toughest chores a grieving spouse must face.
"The whole point of this technology is it should speed the development of antibodies and difficult-to-make proteins, " says Michael Ross, a general partner at SV Life Sciences, which has invested in GlycoFi.
He also indicated that the MP's motivation for at least some of the offences was a desire to conceal the nature of his private life (Mr Laws's partner is a man) rather than greed.
Its subsequent success prompted the duo to reunite and record another album entitled Sounds of Silence in 1966, which Garfunkel said was a life changer for him and his partner, Simon.
We try to educate the businesses we engage with to understand the life of a military wife or partner and make them aware of the benefits of employing military spouses, whether that's their diversity and resourcefulness, or the fact that we are used to moving around and being incredibly adaptable.
But, devoting even a few minutes to figuring out where you and your partner stand on certain money issues may rekindle a few life passions that will remind you of why this person is so special in your life.
Under the influence of this optimistic view, U.S. foreign policy has in recent months come increasingly to be based on the tacit and largely unexamined assumption that, under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union is on its way to becoming a more reliable bargaining partner in international negotiations and a more "normal" participant in international life.
First, you can add your partner as a beneficiary on any life insurance policies, retirement accounts, and annuities.
Judging from his testimony, Abramovich could not wait to dump his former partner after Berezovsky fled to a posh life in London.
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Not only is it about to embark on a new life as a home to a distillery, I also gather the Executive is looking for a private partner to run a conference centre at the jail.
It's a collaborative duo featuring Sean Lennon and his partner in life and music, Charlotte Kemp Muhl.
To the 48-year-old lawyer, whose life partner, Matthew Richards Silverman , is a real estate agent, that smelled like a market top.
Giggs left behind the glitz years ago for a quieter life in the village of Worsley near Manchester with partner Stacey Cooke and their two children.
Perez Hilton blogged that the reason for the break-up was that Britney resented Trawick controlling her life and acting as a babysitter rather than a romantic partner.
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Although Masters is not going to change what he eats, with the passage of time he sees that he may need to date a non-vegan if he is to find his life partner.
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.
Wall Street is playing a guessing game after the surprise announcement in Bristol's earnings release yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a deal Bristol and partner Sanofi-Aventis made to preserve the patent life of their top-selling heart pill Plavix.
My job as a tax partner in a large regional accounting firm is not one that involves life or death urgency.
Katie Nagel lost her life, it appears, to intimate partner violence and homicide, a crime that hijacks eight to ten lives a day.
Trim, fit, full of life, he was midway through a doubles tennis game, casually walking with his partner from one end of the court to the other, when he dropped dead from a heart attack.
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But he impressed me most by how he and his wonderful life partner, Chaz, negotiated his years with head and neck cancer, a disease that claimed his lower jaw and, now, his life.
His new partner, Celia Larkin, has taken more of a central role in his public life since he became Taoiseach, or prime minister.
The feisty 67-year-old partner of Semtek International, a small telecom company, has dedicated much of his life since the mid-1990s to a long-shot legal battle against two powerful foes: the Russian government and U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ).
In January 2009, Mr Draper then signed up the first-ever "lead partner of British tennis" - global life and pensions giant Aegon - in a five-year deal.
For the Danes, life in the EU has often required finding a balance between Germany, their neighbour and biggest trading partner, and Britain, their soul mate and historic market for butter and bacon.
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