I have to admit I wasn't a huge fan of season one of Showtime's The Affair. While I loved the concept—a happy family man and father of four falls for a younger, sexy and married woman, has an affair with her and blows up his marriage, I found the t...

I have dated and become friends with many divorced men over the years, and I think I have a pretty good idea of some characteristics that a lot of them have.  Now, a new play is taking viewers inside the minds of divorced men. "Boys in the Bas...

I ran into a woman the other day, who has been divorced for several years and has three young children. We asked each other the usual questions you ask when you haven't seen someone in awhile: "How are things," "How are the kids?" "How's the job?" "H...

It's easy to look at divorce as a really, really sad, horrible loss, and I agree that it is. But believe it or not, there are some good things that come with getting divorced. There are pros and cons of divorce. What many men and women (especially...

When it comes to breakups, are you one of those people who needs relationship closure in order to move on? Or is a clean break your style?  In this week's Love Essentially column, published yesterday in Chicago Tribune Pioneer Press, I offer the...