Rebuilding Rob

  • Rob Reads: Men After Divorce: In Touch With Feelings – ABC News

    Rob Reads: Men After Divorce: In Touch With Feelings – ABC News

    This is a somewhat cliched “men have feelings” piece, but I was fascinated to hear that nearly in nearly two-thirds of American divorces, it is the wife who files.

  • Divorced people are more likely to have heart attacks: study – NY Daily News

    Divorced people are more likely to have heart attacks: study – NY Daily News. An interesting read.  i would have assumed that the heart attack risk for men goes up regardless – simply because more men seem to have heart attacks than women…but this does make sense.

  • 3 Reasons Divorce Is Harder On Men Than Women

    I don’t ever agree with any generalizations and frankly, I don’t agree with the majority of the reasons in this article.  The first reason could not be further from the truth in my case.  On the contrary, I feel that I actually regained my identity after my separation/divorce.  The second…

  • Columnist: 5 reasons marriage doesn’t work anymore

    I think this article raises some great points about social media and technology in general – and the ways in which they affect our lives – but the  divorce rate has been in the rise for the last few decades already.  Social media hasn’t singlehandedly killed marriage, it’s only exacerbated…

  • Curtain call

    Curtain call

    At the risk of sounding melodramatic, baseball is the great unifier in my family.

  • it’s March…and there’s Madness

    A confession: I’m not really much of a college basketball fan, but I absolutely LOVE March Madness, or the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament as it’s more formally known. I love how any division I school has a shot at making “the big dance” if they just win enough games. I…

  • Changes

    Changes by Tupac Come on come on I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself, “Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?” I’m tired of bein’ poor and even worse I’m black. My stomach hurts, so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch. Cops…

  • Bit by the baby bug…again

    Bit by the baby bug…again

    One of The Auteur’s close friends, who is now a neighbor of ours, got pregnant a few months before we did and just had her baby yesterday.  She had a boy, as are we; and I have to say that I’m getting bit by the baby bug once again. I…

  • better with age?

    better with age?

    I will shave my head before I get a bald spot.  My hairline has managed to outlive those of my closest friends and I refuse to allow it to wither away now.  

  • Rob gets headshrunk

    Rob gets headshrunk

    Today, for the first time since my separation and divorce, I spoke to a counselor.