The new sitcom tries to redress the balance by pitting the randy roué against two contentedly committed couples.
Amid all the heated discussion on both sides of the gay marriage debate, a broader point has somehow gotten lost: why should formally committed couples, straight or gay, enjoy special privileges in the first place?
The show, which will make its debut on Wednesday evening, features four real-life "committed couples" being tempted toward infidelity by a bevy of models and other hyper-attractive singles.
I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married.
A quick online search will bring up a huge volume of statistics -- most of them not scientifically generated -- regarding the frequency of sex among long-term, committed couples.
When pressed to defend their laws, state attorneys were unable to offer a convincing reason why committed couples, some of them raising children, should be denied a marriage license.
From working with intimate partners for four decades, I've created an exercise to help committed couples identify their "below-the-belt" word, phrases, and behaviors and to recognize how they are likely to permanently endanger their relationship.
The authors assume that the promotion of the caregiver's well-being can keep committed couples living together in their own home and has, therefore, significant economizations.
Committed couples who have waited a lifetime to marry will do so in the coming days and weeks.
But what's really driving the practice of committed couples with children living in separate abodes, Dr. Stewart continued, "is that middle- and upper-income women have their own money and independence.
Connecticut lawmakers are expected to vote in the next couple of weeks on legislation that would legalize same-sex marriages or give the rights and obligations of married people to same-sex, committed couples.
