Archive for the 'Relationships' Category

Black Women and Marriage

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!CNN is doing a series called Black in America.  Online they had a piece related to this series titled “Black and Single: Is Marriage Really for White People?” This article I especially found interesting because it touched on [...]

Why You Can’t Get Married, Part 2

Part 1 of this 2-part series was focused on women who couldn’t find a steady man period, much less one to marry. Part 2 is going to focus on women who can get long-term relationships but are unable to get the men in question to marry them.
One of my favorite books is The 48 [...]

Why You Can’t Get Married, Pt. 1

UPDATE: Please note that part 2 is now up.
I was inspired to write this piece by a female friend. This friend, who is in her mid-30s, recently asked me “I don’t get it. I have a graduate degree, I make great money, I own property, I’ve got a great car, I’m independent and [...]

The Beta Male of the Decade

Joy Division - “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Recently Roissy had a post about the Beta Male of the Year, a man who petitioned to take his wife’s last name.
For those who don’t know, these are the definitions of Beta Male I use, from urbandictionary.com:
An unremarkable, careful man who avoids risk and confrontation. Beta males lack [...]

Radical Honesty

I rarely write about a book before reading it, but the premise of this one seemed so interesting I couldn’t resist.  I bought the book Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton because the premise of it seemed so challenging: brutal honesty all of [...]