Cooperative conversations are quite different from competitive ones. Many people - men probably more than women - don't get this distinction, writes David Sanders in this posting at couplesupport.com...
Is untidiness primarily a male characteristic? I suspect it might be, though women are by no means immune. Anyway, if you're a messy person you can get some emotional backup from this article in the New York Times on a new movement extolling the virtues of mess: Saying Yes to Mess
A High Court ruling in Ireland in November that frozen embryos do not have the same constitutional right to life as those carried in the womb, will be appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision means the woman who took the case cannot have the embryos, held in a fertility clinic, implanted in her against the wishes of her separated husband. (See Who owns frozen embryos following separation? below for background).
